Scope and Contents Audrey Maridale Kennedy's account of Kansas City life from the late 1920s to the late 1940s provides a glimpse into Prohibition-era culture, from music halls functioning as speakeasies to the exploits of "Boss Tom" Pendergast, head of the Kansas City political machine during the Roaring '20s.The majority of Kennedy's autobiographical essay deals with the effects of the Great Depression on the Midwest in general and on her family in particular. Kennedy's father was a 67-year-old...