Bennie Moten's Blues

by Joel Goldman

In the 1920s, Kansas City was a wide-open town. Prohibition was ignored because the people were thirsty. Graft and corruption turned the governing wheel. Meatpacking drove the marketplace. Jazz made the body swing and the heart sing. And hate divided white and black, threatening to burn everything down.

Bennie Moten's Blues tells the story of three Kansas City families whose lives intersect as each reaches for their version of the American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990868745
• ISBN13: 9780990868743
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Character Flaw Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"