Lucky Eddie: The Life, Times, and Family of Former U.S. Congressman Edward G. Breen

The astonishing story of one man and one family who went from hardworking immigrants to wealth and political power.

Grand Eccentrics: Turning the Century : Dayton and the Inventing of America
By Mark Bernstein
Grand Eccentrics is a group biography of a half dozen individuals-- Orville and Wilbur Wright, Charles Kettering, John H. Patterson, Arthur Morgan, and James Cox-- who explored those new possibilities.
The Chess Garden, Or, The Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven
By Brooks Hansen
In the 19th Century, a doctor from Dayton, Ohio, volunteers his services for the Boer War in South Africa. From there he sends his family letters on an imaginary world populated by chess pieces and describes his adventures among them.
Dayton, Ohio: An Intimate History
By Charlotte Reeve Conover
Dayton, Ohio: An Intimate History