{"product_id":"paris-of-the-plains-kansas-city-from-doughboys-to-expressways-1609490622","title":"Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1609490622\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Simonson, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The title did more than nod to the perfumed ladies who shopped at Harzfeld's Parisian or the one-thousand-foot television antenna nicknamed the \"Eye-full Tower.\" It spoke to the character of a town that worked for Boss Tom and danced for Count Basie but transcended both the Pendergast era and the Jazz Age. Author John Simonson introduces readers to a town of vaudeville shows and screened-in porches, where fleets of cream-and-black streetcars passed beneath a canopy of elms. This is a history that smells equally of lilacs and stockyards and bursts with the clamor of gunshots, radio baseball and the distant whistle of a night train.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51979303059744,"sku":"NEW1609490622","price":15.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/paris-of-the-plains-kansas-city-from-doughboys-to-expressways-1609490622","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}