This book traces the first 70 years of the history of The Kansas City Star newspaper, tracing "the shifting fortunes of a great newspaper and the compelling 'power of purpose' it exerted from the birth of the progressive movement in the 1880s to the 1950s." It includes a look at three influential editors including founder William Rockhill Nelson, Henry J. Haskell, and Roy A. Roberts. The relationship between the newspaper and city politics, including Tom Pendergast, is covered as well as the paper's experiment in employee ownership, etc.