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Chargement... Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways (MO)par John Simonson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 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 history that is a quick and easy read while neither being simplistic or condescending. I'm going to recommend this to everyone I know from KC, new to KC, or remotely curious about the town. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. 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. This is a history that smells equally of lilacs and stockyards and bursts with the clamor of gunshots, radio baseball and the distant whistle of a night train. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)977.8History and Geography North America Midwestern U.S. MissouriClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Each chapter comprises a range of years during the 20th century, and the chapters are subdivided into sections of no more than 1-3 pages. The writer takes the reader through these momentary snapshots, as if in a dream, flitting from one small bit of personal history to the next. And on and on. Nothing connects except for the larger setting.
I was born, raised and presently live in Kansas City, and this 'Paris of the Plains' feels a little foreign to me. ( )