{"product_id":"the-night-club-era-paperback","title":"The Night Club Era - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStanley Walker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlva Johnston\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Night Club Era\u003c\/i\u003e should rate as a Broadway Koran. Other books on the subject are unnecessary if they agree with it, wrong if they differ from it, and in either case should be burned.\"--Alva Johnston, from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the aftermath of Prohibition, Stanley Walker's \u003ci\u003eThe Night Club Era\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively and idiosyncratic account of the people and places that defined New York's night life during the era of \"the great American madness.\" Here we meet murderers and millionaires, gangsters, bartenders, celebrities of the stage, screen, and society, and a host of other colorful characters who populated the city's diverse night clubs, from El Fey to the Cotton Club. Walker relives the \"night of incredulous sadness\" on which the Volstead Act went into effect, visits a classic speakeasy, discussing the owner's delicate arrangements with policemen, prohibition agents, and bootleggers, and details the frequently brutal swindles practiced in the city's numerous clip joints and the tactics of the era's crime organizations, explaining precisely what happens when one is \"taken for a ride.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the larger-than-life night club habitués Walker sketches are Owney Madden, the elder statesman of the city's rackets; Walter Winchell, America's most influential columnist and the \"brash historian of our life and times\"; Mayor James J. Walker, who typified the gaudiness, smartness, and insouciance of the city he ran, yet was never too refined to shoot dice on hotel room floors; and Texas Guinan, the beloved entertainer, hostess, and entrepreneur who greeted customers with her trademark phrase \"Hello, sucker!\" Vividly told, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Club Era\u003c\/i\u003e offers a singular, serious--though never sober--history of New York City during Prohibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanley Walker \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Lampasas, Texas, in 1898. After writing for the \u003ci\u003eAustin American-Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e, he joined the staff of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e as a reporter and rewrite man in 1920. He became night city editor of the \u003ci\u003eHerald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e in 1926 and served as city editor from 1928 to 1935. After various jobs with other newspapers and magazines, Walker rejoined the \u003ci\u003eHerald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e as editor in 1937. He was appointed editor of the \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Public Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e in 1939 and retired from newspaper work a year later. He died in 1962. His books include \u003ci\u003eCity Editor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMrs. Astor's Horse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDewey: An American of this Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHome to Texas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 8.45 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757490864416,"sku":"9780801862915","price":52.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/47918b50cef314ac75fce5b96a8ab3a1.webp?v=1780104463","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-night-club-era-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}