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

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
Pendergast, Tom, > 1870-1945 > Influence.
Pendergast, Tom, > 1870-1945.
1900-1999
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Kansas City (Mo.) > History > 20th century.
Missouri > Kansas City.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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