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Wide-open town : Kansas City in the Pendergast era /

"Wide-Open Town explores the rich history of Kansas City in the interwar period, which has been characterized as an exciting period of growth, development, and cultural fluorescence--the city's Golden Age--even in the midst of rampant public corruption, economic depression, and strained so...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Burke, Diane Mutti (Editor ), Roe, Jason (Editor ), Herron, John P., 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a "Wide-Open Town explores the rich history of Kansas City in the interwar period, which has been characterized as an exciting period of growth, development, and cultural fluorescence--the city's Golden Age--even in the midst of rampant public corruption, economic depression, and strained social relations. The contributors to this wide-ranging collection seek to answer the question of whether this really was Kansas City's Golden Age: did this era elevate, refine, or ruin Kansas City's national profile? The contributors come from a variety of departments and institutions, and chapters focus on such topics as the 1928 Republican National Convention, the KC Monarchs, Mexican immigrants, drag shows, health care, the stockyards, and Thomas Hart Benton--and, of course, jazz"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
520 |a "Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city-- complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change--for Kansas City, as for the nation as a whole. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural crossroads of America, Wide-Open Town maps the myriad ways in which Kansas City reflected and helped shape the narrative of a nation undergoing an epochal transformation. During the interwar period, political boss Tom Pendergast reigned, and Kansas City was said to be "wide open." Prohibition was rarely enforced, the mob was ascendant, and urban vice was rampant. But in a community divided by the hard lines of race and class, this "openness" also allowed many of the city's residents to challenge conventional social boundaries--and it is this intersection and disruption of cultural norms that interests the authors of Wide-Open Town. Writing from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, the contributors take up topics ranging from the 1928 Republican National Convention to organizing the garment industry, from the stockyards to health care, drag shows, Thomas Hart Benton, and, of course, jazz. Their essays bring to light the diverse histories of the city--among, for instance, Mexican immigrants, African Americans, the working class, and the LGBT community before the advent of "LGBT." Wide-Open Town captures the defining moments of a society rocked by World War I, the mass migration of people of color into cities, the entrance of women into the labor force and politics, Prohibition, economic collapse, and a revolution in social mores. Revealing how these changes influenced Kansas City--and how the city responded--this volume helps us understand nothing less than how citizens of the age adapted to the rise of modern America."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
505 0 |a The other Tom's town: Thomas T. Crittenden Jr., black disfranchisement, and the limits of liberalism in Kansas City -- Big deal in Little Tammany: Kansas City, the Pendergast Machine, and the liberal transformation of the democratic party -- J.C. Nichols and neighborhood infrastructure: the fooundations of American suburbia -- "A magnificent tower of strength": the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City -- Our time to shine: the 1928 Republican National Convention and Kansas City's rising profile -- Making meat: race, labor, and the Kansas City stockyards -- The bitterest battle: the effort to unionize the Donnelly Garment Company -- Morally and legally entitled: women's political activism in Kansas City -- Collaborative confrontation in the "persistent protest": Lucile Bluford and the Kansas City call, 1939-1942 -- "As good as money could buy": Kansas City's black public hospital -- Kansas City's Guadalupe Center and the Mexican immigrant community -- "The event of the season": race, charity, and jazz in 1920s Kansas City -- Radio pioneers: the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks -- Thomas Hart Benton and Kansas City's "golden age" -- From proscenium to inferno: the interwar transformation of female impersonation in Kansas City -- Kansas City's Liberty Memorial: remembering then and now -- Contributors -- Index -- Back matter. 
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