Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00XRFA4XS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 106 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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His work has appeared in local newspapers, magazines, websites, corporate publications, museum exhibits, jazz recordings and beyond. . John Simonson is an independent writer and editor. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri
. His work has appeared in local newspapers, magazines, websites, corporate publications, museum exhibits, jazz recordings and beyond. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri. About the Author John Simonson is an independent writer and editor
Meaningful if you already love KC This small, short, sweet book is a collection of essays, with a stream-of-consciousness feel to each chapter. One gets a sense of the writer's efforts to express a deeper feeling for Kansas City and the people who lived, died, or just passed through. There are passa. Katie S. said An Absolute Pleasure. If you are at all interested in the history and personality of Kansas City, this book is an utter pleasure to read. Simonson's tour through the first five decades of the twentieth century provide a colorful, non-academic (but still informative), thoroughly human his. Amazon Customer said I worked in Kansas City for a week recently and. I worked in Kansas City for a week recently and wanted to know more about it. This book captured the city's charm and I am looking forward to my return visit.
The title did more than nod to the perfumed ladies who shopped at Harzfeld's Parisian or the one-thousand-foot television antenna nicknamed the "Eye-full Tower." It spoke to the character of a town that worked for Boss Tom and danced for Count Basie but transcended both the Pendergast era and the Jazz Age. Author John Simonson introduces readers to a town of vaudeville shows and screened-in porches, where fleets of cream-and-black streetcars passed beneath a canopy of elms. From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians liv