{"product_id":"skywalks-9781496233134","title":"Skywalks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSkywalks is the story of the 1981 Hyatt Regency Kansas City hotel disaster that killed 114 people, as told through the actions of Kansas City attorney Robert Gordon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paul's account is clear and well-paced even as he takes the reader through the weeds of legal arguments, filings, and rulings. It is a laudable and worthy addition to the skywalks story.\"—Steve Paul, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In true whodunit fashion, R. Eli Paul has told Gordon's story.\"—Charles E. Rankin, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Through this overdue telling of the skywalks collapse, readers confront powerful, disturbing questions about the ways truth and justice after a tragedy can be crushed by the quick social need for narrative consensus, and about the consequences that land on flawed but courageous dissenters like Robert Gordon.”—James N. Leiker, coauthor of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSkywalks\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of an obsession. But the obsession belongs to lawyer Robert Gordon. R. Eli Paul, the retired head of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library, has completed the job that Gordon could not. Paul brings not just rigor to the job but insight. This book is about influence and power in 1980s Kansas City, Missouri, and it is among the best literary nonfiction about place.”—Max McCoy, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eElevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Dramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Tapes\u003cbr\u003e 2. Molly Riley, a Class Act\u003cbr\u003e 3. Robert Charles “Bobby” Gordon\u003cbr\u003e 4. One in a Hundred Lawsuits\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hallmark’s Kansas City\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Deponent\u003cbr\u003e 7. The \u003ci\u003eFederal Skywalk Cases\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Setback\u003cbr\u003e 9. Betrayal\u003cbr\u003e 10. Writer\u003cbr\u003e 11. House of Cards\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Gordon Thesis\u003cbr\u003e 13. Rinse and Repeat\u003cbr\u003e 14. What Might Have Been\u003cbr\u003e 15. Excerpt\u003cbr\u003e 16. Interruptions\u003cbr\u003e 17. Finales\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Selections from the Deposition of Donald Joyce Hall\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographic Essay\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409242562903,"sku":"9781496233134","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496233134.jpg?v=1730506111","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/skywalks-9781496233134","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}