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| Posted by The Muse (themuse) on Jan 21 2015 |
A few days ago, the radio show Central Standard, produced by local NPR affiliate, KCUR, invited local historian Monroe Dodd and KCPL Missouri Valley Special Collections manager Eli Paul to discuss their top ten list of books about the history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Here's a link to the audio for the show, "Historians Recommend The Best 20 Books About Kansas City"
The List
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Kansas City and How it Grew by James Shortridge |
City of the Future by Henry Haskell Jr. and Richard Fowler |
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Tom’s Town by William Redding |
Kansas City: An American Story by Rick Montgomery and Shirl Kasper |
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The City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City by William H. Wilson |
I Was Right on Time by Buck O’Neil |
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A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960 by Sherry Schirmer |
Architecture A to Z: An Elemental, Alphabetical Guide to Kansas City's Built Environment by Steve Paul |
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Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge by Evan Connell |
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri by Jonathan Earle |
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Action before Westport, 1864 by Howard N. Monnett |
Take Up the Black Man’s Burden: Kansas City’s African American Communities, 1865-1939 by Charles E. Coulter |
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Deaths on Pleasant Street: The Ghastly Enigma of Colonel Swope and Dr. Hyde by Giles Fowler |
Pendergast! by Larry Larson |
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Truman by David McCullough |
Truman and Pendergast by Robert Ferrell |
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Kansas City Style: a Social and Cultural History of Kansas City as Seen Through Its Lost Architecture by Jane Flynn and Dory DeAngelo |
Walt Disney’s Missouri: The Roots of a Creative Genius by Brian Burnes, Robert W. Butler and Dan Viets, edited by Donna Martin |
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Kansas City Then and Now by Monroe Dodd |
The Kansa Indians: A History of the Wind People, 1673-1873 by William E. Unrau |
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