Tom's Town: Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend

by William M. Reddig

Book Overview

The Pendergast machine rose to power riding the industrial and business boom of the 1920s, strengthened its grip during the chaos of the depression years, and grew fat and arrogant during the spending spree that followed. It fell apart in a fantastic series of crimes, including voting fraud and tax evasion, that shocked the nation and resulted in the incarceration of Tom Pendergast in a federal prison in 1939. Now available in paperback with a foreword...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826204988
• ISBN13: 9780826204981
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"