Boss-Busters & Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star - Rilegato

Haskell, Harry

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ISBN 10: 0826217699 ISBN 13: 9780826217691

Casa editrice: Univ of Missouri Pr, 2007

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"Haskell tells the tale of the Kansas City Star's rise and decline, taking readers into the city room and executive offices of one of the most respected American newspapers. This story includes Kansas City notables as Tom Pendergast, J. C. Nichols, Frank Walsh, William Rockhill Nelson, Henry J. Haskell and Roy A. Roberts"--Provided by publisher.

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Harry Haskell is the grandson of Henry J. Haskell and a former music critic for the Kansas City Star. He is author of The Early Music Revival: A History and editor of The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticism. He lives in Guilford, Connecticut.

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At the turn of the twentieth century, the "Kansas City Star" was a trust-busting newspaper acclaimed for its crusading progressive spirit; fifty years later it was a busted trust, targeted in the most important antitrust action ever brought against an American daily. Now Harry Haskell tells the tale of the Star's rise and decline against the richly textured backdrop of Kansas City - the story of how a newspaper and a city grew together and ultimately grew apart. Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds takes readers into the city room and executive offices of one of the most respected American newspapers, whose influence extended beyond its own community to international affairs. Re-creating life at the Star from the inside, the book traces 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. This fascinating tale - with underlying themes of sin and redemption, high-minded ideals and gutter politics - is populated by a cast of larger-than-life characters, ranging from power brokers to presidents and including such Kansas City notables as Tom Pendergast, J. C. Nichols, and Frank Walsh. But at heart this is the story of three men with contrasting personalities and agendas who shaped the newspaper over more than three-quarters of a century: William Rockhill Nelson, among the last of the great "personal" editors from journalism's golden age; the scholarly Henry J. Haskell, who led the Star to its peak of influence in the 1930s and '40s; and Roy A. Roberts, who went on to combine the roles of newspaper publisher and political kingmaker. Along the way, Haskell recounts such milestones as the Star's role in the City Beautiful movement that helped transform America's urban centers; the nation's entry into two global wars; a bold but ill-starred experiment in employee ownership; and the paper's on-again, off-again battle with Boss Pendergast's legendary political machine. And he

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• Editore: Univ of Missouri Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0826217699
• ISBN 13: 9780826217691
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 450