Stanley WalkerReseñas

Reprint of article in February 5, 1956 Dallas Times Herald Centennial Edition. Heavy stock magazine style softcover.

Written in 1933, this is a snapshot of time, when the Roosevelt administration was new, Prohibition was on the way out, anyone could buy a machine gun and the previous decade of the Roaring Twenties was looked back on in wonder. Similar in vein to Asbury's Gangs of New York, Walker takes a tabloid look at the big shots, the losers, the glamorous and the criminal side of life that made up New York's Night Club Era. Many names are recognizable, while most have disappeared from living memory, much as today's Enquirer fodder will fade quite soon. Walker uses the lingo of the time to great effect.½