{"product_id":"9781609490621","title":"Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways","description":"\u003cbr\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.","brand":"History Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056454484208,"sku":"9781609490621","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609490621_p0.jpg?v=1769903129","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609490621","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}