Forum:Mayor of Kansas City

I'm finally reading 2F; it and the other library book I'd reserved came up at the same time, and the two week lending periods on each sadly overlap. At first I was going to give the other book priority (Rod Stewart's autobiography; my relative excitement about that really goes to show hoe much trouble I'm having finding truly compelling reading material these days), but it's just a lot of witty one-liners punctuating a story that's really not too interesting. Turtledove, on the other hand, is like shrugging on an old coat at this point, so in the end I decided to give him the priority--even as I become painfully aware that each battle/front line scene is something I've read literally hundreds of times before. Even the "Tanks are like penises" joke from Heinrich Jager's first scene isn't unique anymore. Also, they're all smokjng so much you'd think the Rebs had recovered Lee's lost order eighty years before.

Anyway, searching as ever for new historical characters, one line that caught my attention was Peggy listening to the news and learning that the mayor of KC had been arrested for corruption dating back thirty years in some cases. In 1942 the mayor was John Gage; he was a squeaky-clean reformer in the mold of Fiorello La Guardia. The crooked mayor hd cleanex up after was Tom Pendergast, who fits the bill described. He left office under a cloud in 1940. Think the different outcome of Munich might have caused his prosecutors and political foes to move a bit mord slowly? Turtle Fan (talk) 15:00, August 24, 2013 (UTC)