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Boss Busters & Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star
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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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2007
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Book
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Sinclair Lewis In Kansas City
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Author Sinclair Lewis spent time in Kansas City while researching and preparing to write his book "Elmer Gantry," or what he called his "preacher novel." Local ministers such as William L. Stidger of Linwood Boulevard Methodist Church and Burris Jenkins of the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church became involved with Lewis while he was in Kansas City. "Pastor I. M. Hargett of the Grand Avenue Temple . . . flattered himself on being the real-life model for Gantry" (p. 254). Includes a picture of Lewis taken while in Kansas City.
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2007
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Jason Rogers and His Investigations of the Kansas City Star
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During the 1920s, Walter Dickey, the owner of the Kansas City Journal and the Kansas City Post, hired newspaperman Jason Rogers to look into the business practices of The Kansas City Star. This book contains a few pages detailing this event.
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2007
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Frank Walsh and His Relationship With the Kansas City Star
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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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2007
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