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Wide-Open Town : Kansas City in the Pendergast Era /

"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-...

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Otros Autores: Herron, John P., 1968- (Editor ), Roe, Jason (Editor ), Burke, Diane Mutti (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.