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Title
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Boss Busters & Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2007
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Book
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Frank Walsh and His Relationship With the Kansas City Star
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Description
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A great deal of detail concerning Irish Kansas City lawyer and political figure, Frank Walsh. Includes information on his connection with the Board of Public Welfare, U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, National War Labor Board, Democratic politics both on the local level with Tom Pendergast and nationally, and his personal relationship with William Rockhill Nelson. Includes a picture of him on p.295.
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Date
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2007
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Book Section
