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Alva Johnston claimed ´ The Night Club Era 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 IntroductionWritten in the aftermath of Prohibition, Stanley Walker´s The Night Club Era 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.´ Among 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, The Night Club Era offers a singular, serious—though never sober—history of New York City during Prohibition.
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