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After the panic of the attack on Pearl Harbor, St. Louis mobilized for war. This social history describes the anxiety and excitement of the time. ... Read more

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Great Prophetic Insights
Amid the spiritual development in late 2004 and after hearing so many times about it, I finally got hold of a copy and read it(1991 edition).

I have heard a lot of negative things about so-called "Kansas City Prophets" over last couple years. After reading the book, I realized, this book, written by an "outsider", truly cleared up a lot of things for me.

I was most touched by the earlier life of Brother Paul Cain as recorded in this book. I have tremendous respect and understanding for him after this book. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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A Nice Slice of Kansas City History...In Epitaph Form!
I read this book a very long time ago and still recall it as vividly as if I had read it yesterday. "Here Lies Kansas City" gives a page-long sketch about many luminary figures from Kansas City's history.

From Francois Chouteau and his wife Bernice (namesake of Chouteau Trafficway and the Choueteau Bridge), Thomas Johnson (namesake for Johnson County, Kansas), and Dr. Benoist Troost (namesake for Troost Avenue and Elementary School) to 20th century luminaries like Thomas Hart Benton, J.C. Hall, and Satchel Paige, this book features figures from all periods of the city's history through publication. What is most impressive in this regard, is that the biographical sketches duly acknowledge each individual's contribution to the city's history while also serving as an epitaph of sorts for them. This in conjunction with the gravestone photography makes this book a must-read (if not a slightly morbid one) for anybody interested in those who helped to put the city on the map. ... Read more

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Not well researched
I bought this book when it first came out and found some Major errors in the building histories and in the current descriptions of buildings. Obviously this is one of those slap it together and get it on the shelf kind of Not very serious looks at a city kind of books. There are several examples but one that sticks out is the Kansas City Masonic temple located at 9th and Harrison built in 1911 and still being used by the Freemasons. According to the author it is vacant falling down and will be gone soon! In her "Now" picture the lights are on at the front of the building! Just sloppy work the sign of a true armature. The story according to the Masons is the building has been continually occupied since 1911 and there are currently 8 Masonic bodies who meet at 9th and Harrison and the building is currently under going renovations in preparation for the buildings 100 Year anniversary. Many great names of Kansas City History have been members there and the membership have plans well into the future for that building.
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Seasoned cyclist's advice, maps & route information for more than 85 routes throughout Kansas City. Road routes, trails and more. ... Read more

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In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district. Yet even after increasing employee salaries and constructing elaborate facilities at a cost of more than $2 billion, the district remained overwhelmingly segregated and student achievement remained far below national averages.

Just eight years later the U.S. Supreme Court began reversing these initiatives, signifying a major retreat from Brown v. Board of Education. In Kansas City, African American families opposed to the district court's efforts organized a takeover of the school board and requested that the court case be closed. Joshua Dunn argues that Judge Clark's ruling was not the result of tyrannical "judicial activism" but was rather the logical outcome of previous contradictory Supreme Court doctrines. High Court decisions, Dunn explains, necessarily limit the policy choices available to lower court judges, introducing complications the Supreme Court would not anticipate. He demonstrates that the Kansas City case is a model lesson for the types of problems that develop for lower courts in any area in which the Supreme Court attempts to create significant change. Dunn's exploration of this landmark case deepens our understanding of when courts can and cannot successfully create and manage public policy. ... Read more

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By the mid-nineteenth century, Kansas City was an important trading center for the westward movement. Through the late 1800s, two World Wars, and into the modern era, Kansas City has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity through the strength and resolve of its citizens.


This volume, Historic Photos of Kansas City, captures this journey through still photography from the city's finest archives. From the Civil War, to the turn of the century, to the building of a modern metropolis, Historic Photos of Kansas City follows life, government, education and events throughout Kansas City's history. This book captures unique and rare scenes through the original lens of hundreds of historic photographs. Published in striking black and white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city. ... Read more

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Named in honor of Pres. Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson City was established specifically as the home of Missouri's state government. The city has a rich history as the seat of the Missouri General Assembly and state government operations. Beginning in the 1820s with the construction of a capitol building and commercial developments, people came to the new capital city to work and live. The vintage postcards in this collection illustrate and enliven the historical significance of Jefferson City as capital of the Show-Me State-vivid history is interwoven with informative text that both entertains and educates. ... Read more

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Easy Reference
This map is a part of the popular EasyFinder series, a group of durable, fold-out maps of various areas. This one covers the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. As someone who frequently travels, I find this map extremely useful, mainly because it is easy to use and handle. You will have no problems with complicated folding and wrinkling of common paper maps here. The map, which is made of very strong yet pliable material, can easily be spread out and folded back into small form in seconds. In addition to this, you can also write on it with erasable marker or pen and wipe it off later. This is extremely valuable when plotting routes, especially through complicated or unfamiliar areas. For a useful, and most importantly, easy-to-use map, look no further than the EasyFinder. ... Read more

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When the stars go blue
The graphic novel memoir for adults has tentatively established itself as its own particular artform. Books like Marjane Satrapi's, "Persepolis" or Joe Sacco's "Palestine" carry with them the weight of their authors' personal histories alongside a much larger story. For kids, though, the graphic novel memoir has yet to really come into its own. Publishers so eager to embrace manga and two-dimensional storytelling shy away from kid tales attempting any kind of depth. Credit the good folks at First Second Books then with doing their part to change all that. Author Leland Myrick has tried his hand at a very personal story with the quietly moving, "Missouri Boy". Following a boy as he grows to be a man, the book doesn't offer as much insight or interpretation of Myrick's experiences as I would have liked, but it does give the reader a very real series of slices of a single human being's life.

He was born in 1961 alongside his twin brother just as his grandmother died. And from here on in the reader gets a series of brief glimpses of the author's life growing up in Missouri. These are sometimes very simple moments. Creating paper airplanes that fly on winds that may not even exist anymore. The time he hid under a pile of leaves and his friends played a nasty trick on him. Hanging off a hospital parking structure to look up at the girls he likes. Other times the moments in this book would be of the sort we'd consider "important". Witnessing his much older brother convicted of bank robbery and sent to serve ten years. Or not asking out the cute nurse at the hospital when he had the chance. It all works together. It all tells his story. It's life between the years of 1961 and 1985 that begins in the Missouri and ends in the greater world.

I liked very much that Myrick took the time to give each selection in this book its own separate title. The first of these, "Ghost Umbilical", calls attention to the connection between Myrick's mother, bursting with life at her stomach, and his grandmother, dying of the bulge in hers. With expert skill Myrick is able to bring these two great moments in a human life together by saying, "Through a wispy umbilical of ectoplasm we didn't even know we shared, arching between the living and the dead, connecting beginnings to ends, passing memories through the ether one belly to another". "Underwear Pond", in contrast, shows Leland and his friends in a swimming hole where they ritually tend to toss their underwear into the brackish depths before departing. There's a little moment in this section where Myrick as a boy thinks of the pond in the future. "Imagining the day when the pond is sold away - And the new owners drain it ... to find a solid coating of boy's underwear".

You might ask me why I thought this book was better suited for children rather than teens and adults. It's a difficult question to answer. There is nothing in "Missouri Boy" that anyone could really count as "inappropriate" for children (with the possible exception of a section involving a hospital cadaver). And as an adult I appreciated what Myrick was able to say about the small moments that spelled out his time in Missouri. Still, there's much in this story for kids to appreciate and love. Having a twin. Setting off firecrackers. Watching the first streak of gray hair appear on your father's head. It's slow but entirely comfortable. The illustrations themselves are not of a style I would normally seek out but they work beautifully within Myrick's narratives.

As an author, Mr. Myrick is sparing of his words. This is not, by any means, a wordy novel and I'd never wish for it to be one. Still, I would have liked just a touch more connection between the disparate moments in the author's life. We flash from age to age, from the seemingly inconsequential moment when his father buys an easy chair, to the time he helped with the full body x-ray of a crash victim. These are strong moments, but without any sense of continuity. As a result they feel almost too individual to hang together as a whole.

That said, it's an excellent book. A definite keeper and a graphic novel appropriate for all children's library collections everywhere. For those parents who see GNs only as superhero adventures or tales of malarky, try handing them Myrick's quiet little book. It has the potential to win over a couple more fans to the side of the children's graphic memoir. ... Read more

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Since 1803, when York, a slave in the Lewis and Clark expedition, stood on the bluffs overlooking Kansas City, African Americans have contributed to the city’s rich history. Men and women like Tom Bass, Emily Fisher, Sam Sheperd, and Hiram Young built the region in slavery and in freedom. Musicians such as Julie Lee, Bennie Moten, Joe Turner, and Count Basie turned Kansas City into a jazz mecca in the 1920s and ’30s. The professional class made their voice heard with the establishment of the Kansas City Monarchs baseball team, the Kansas City Call newspaper, and election of the city’s first black mayor, Emmanuel Cleaver. With over 200 vintage images, Kansas City recreates this beautiful mosaic of African-American community. ... Read more

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A real treat!
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Arcadia Publishing's Black America Series is worth millions. Each title in the series (currently 82 and growing) focuses on a region or theme, and is written by a local history buff with an obvious passion for their subject. Each is packed with 200 photographs depicting scenes from family, social, business, cultural, religious and political life, with narrative to place them in context. Many of the photos are from private collections and the archives of black newspapers.

The power of making visible what was formerly invisible cannot be overestimated. I have personally reviewed three titles and recommend them all: ANOTHER ANN ARBOR by Carol Gibson and Lola M. Jones, CINCINNATI by Gina Ruffin Moore, and KANSAS CITY by Delia C. Gillis. ... Read more