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From the North End to the Country Club District, from the West Bottoms to downtown skyscrapers-Wide-Open Town's contributors and editors prowl the corners of one of the nation's most vital cities during that long interwar moment when Kansas City's politics and culture fused to form a unique mix of idealism, conflict, and possibility. The story that emerges from their essays is essential not just for those who know and love this city but for anyone seeking fresh insight into the roots of late twentieth-century metropolitan America. - Eric T. Sandweiss, Carmony Chair and professor of history, Indiana University

From the North End to the Country Club District, from the West Bottoms to downtown skyscrapers--Wide-Open Town's contributors and editors prowl the corners of one of the nation's most vital cities during that long interwar moment when Kansas City's politics and culture fused to form a unique mix of idealism, conflict, and possibility. The story that emerges from their essays is essential not just for those who know and love this city but for anyone seeking fresh insight into the roots of late twentieth-century metropolitan America. --Eric T. Sandweiss, Carmony Chair and professor of history, Indiana University

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Diane Mutti Burke is associate professor and chair of history and director of the Center for Midwestern Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She is the coeditor of Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border, also from Kansas. Jason Roe is digital history specialist at the Kansas City Public Library. John Herron is professor of history and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

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