Wide-Open Town: Kansas City

in the Pendergast Era

Diane Mutti Burke, Jason Roe,

and John Herron

(pendergastkc.org)

Thomas Frank

Richard Rhodes

Harry S. Truman with

Thomas J. Pendergast.

Democratic National

Convention, 1936

Jesse Clyde Nichols

Lucile Bluford

University of Kansas City

Administration Building

William Rockhill Nelson

Gallery of Art and Atkins

Museum of Fine Arts

(now the Nelson-Atkins

Museum of Art)

Thomas Hart Benton, with his

painting, “Rape of Persephone”