Kansas City 1940: A Watershed Year

1940: It's the year Nazis rain bombs on London and goose—step into Paris, when President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term and Kansas Citians finally run the corrupt Pendergast political machine out of power. The new reform—minded city government is bent on cleaning up the sinful Paris of the Plains and streamlining its future with wide, new miles of trafficways. Notorious nightclubs have closed. The City Market opens. Glenn Miller swings, Bojangles taps and Gone with the Wind prem...