Kansas City 1940: A Watershed Year

1940: It's the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, when President Roosevelt wins...
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Author: John Simonson
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Kansas City 1940: A Watershed Year by Simonson, John

Kansas City 1940: A Watershed Year

€32,46

Kansas City 1940: A Watershed Year

€32,46
Author: John Simonson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
1940: It's the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose-step into Paris, when President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finally run the corrupt Pendergast political machine out of power. The new reform-minded city government is bent on cleaning up the sinful Paris of the Plains and streamlining its future with wide, new miles of trafficways. Notorious nightclubs have closed. The City Market opens. Glenn Miller swings, Bojangles taps and Gone with the Wind premieres. Old buildings make way for parking lots. A dying meteor lights up the night sky above a racially segregated city, home to Charlie Parker, Thomas Hart Benton, Walter Cronkite, Satchel Paige and Thomas J. Pendergast, ex-con. It's all on display here in photographs snapped by WPA workers and stories curated by John Simonson.

Author: John Simonson
Publisher: History Press
Published: 11/19/2013
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781626193239

About the Author
Simonson, John: - John Simonson's work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, websites, corporate publications, museum exhibits, jazz recordings and beyond. His blog, Paris of the Plains, became the basis for Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways, published in 2010 by The History Press. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

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