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As the Emporia sesquicentennial year winds down, the Emporia Public Library and the William Allen White Community Partnership invite you to an evening with Harry Haskell, author of Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star. Learn how the history of the Star and Kansas City intersects with William Allen White and Emporia.
Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star
At the turn of the 20th century, The Kansas City Star was a trust-busting newspaper acclaimed for its independent, progressive spirit. Fifty years later it was a busted trust, targeted by federal prosecutors in the most important anti-trust action ever brought against an American daily newspaper.
Harry Haskell, a former music editor for The Kansas City Star, explores the newspaper’s transformation from populist crusader to pawn of corporate culture – and the lessons it holds for journalism today in a presentation on Friday, November 16, at 7 p.m. at the Emporia Public Library, 110 E. 6th Ave. in Emporia. A book signing follows his presentation.
Author Harry Haskell of Guilford, Connecticut is deeply rooted in the Midwest and in the history of the Kansas City Star newspaper. His new book “Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star” chronicles the colorful newspaper history when Tom Pendergast, J. C. Nichols, Frank Walsh, William Rockhill Nelson and Henry J. Haskell were players in shaping the Kansas City we know today. Pulitzer Prize winning Editor Haskell was a friend and associate of William Allen White and the grandfather of the author. At Sallie White’s request, Henry J. Haskell delivered the eulogy at the funeral of William Allen White in Kenyon Hall on the C of E campus on Jan. 31, 1944.
Haskell is author of The Early Music Revival: A History and The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticism. Mr. Haskell’s appearance is hosted by the William Allen White Community Partnership, Inc. and the Emporia Public Library.
Book info: Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds