Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Metheny In Kansas City 1964 1972

Unlike many cities farther north, Kansas City, Missouri - along with its sister city in Kansas - had a significant African American population by the midnineteenth century and also served as a way station for those migrating north or west. "Take Up the Black Man's Burden" focuses on the people and institutions that shaped the city's black communities from the end of the Civil War until the outbreak of World War II, blending rich historical research with first-person accounts that allow participants in this historical drama to tell their own stories of struggle and accomplishment.

Hidden in the papers of Secretary of Treasury Henry Morganthau for the past 56 years, this investigative report is more than a simple account of the collapse of the Pendergast machine in Kansas City. The Kansas City Investigation takes the reader on a mysterious ride thought the twists and turns of Hartmann's intriguing investigation.