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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, KS :
University Press of Kansas,
2018.
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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.