Background
Walker, Stanley was born on October 21, 1898 in Lampasas, Texas, United States. Son of Walter and Cora (Stanley) Walker.
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Dewey: An American of This Century
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Dewey, an American of This Century
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City editor,
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1934 first edition, second printing, Frederick A. Stokes Co. NY. Hardcover. No dust jacket. With photos and an Index.
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Journey toward the sunlight, a story of the Dominican Republic and its people.
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Journey toward the sunlight,: A story of the Dominican Republic and its people
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The Night Club Era by Stanley Walker (1999-08-10)
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The Night Club Era
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" 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 Introduction Written 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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Dewey: An American of This Century by Professor Stanley Walker (2010-09-10)
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City Editor
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New York City in the 1920s and 1930s was a great newspaper town, and few people knew the exciting world of breaking stories and five-star finals as intimately as Stanley Walker. Walker earned a reputation as one of the city's most resourceful and astute newspaper men during the seven years he spent as city editor of the Herald Tribune. In City Editor, Walker distills his experiences into a robust insider's account of the journalism of his day, bringing to life the era's famous reporters and editors and offering hard-won and valuable insights into the practices and ideals of his profession. He takes on the difficult issues confronting the journalists of both his own day and ours: journalistic ethics, the value of journalism schools, freedom of the press and corporate influence on editorial content, and the impact of new media (in Walker's day, news magazines and radio) on newspaper circulation. In marvelously concise and vibrant prose, Walker describes the challenges and pleasures of covering New York City ("It affords the newspaper man an ever-changing spectacle"), balances the threat of libel with the need to get a good story ("A paper which doesn't take chances is a dead paper"), and offers candid advice on good newspaper writing ("Pick adjectives as you would a diamond or a mistress... too many are dangerous"). He laments about the young reporters ruined by alcohol or marriage and looks at the demands of other newspaper jobs, from copyreaders and photographers to sports writers and press agents. He analyzes why some newspapers succeed while others fail and discusses the future of women in journalism, concluding with profiles of twelve of New York's best reporters (including Beverly Smith, Walter Davenport, and Alva Johnston) and a characteristic story by each. Sixty-five years after its first publication, City Editor remains a lively, entertaining, and valuable record of the golden age of American journalism.
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Stanley Walker
Edit ProfileEducation
Educated University of Texas, 1915-1918.
Career
According to a roadside memorial at the site of his birth near Lampasas, Texas, Walker began his career in Austin and Dallas. He served as city editor of the Herald-Tribune, and also on the staff of the Philadelphia Ledger. Among his books was The Night Club Era.
He spent his last years in the Lampasas area.
Walker may be best known to modern audiences for his description of the ideal newspaper journalist:
What makes a good newspaperman? The answer is easy. He knows everything. He is aware not only of what goes on in the world today, but his brain is a repository of the accumulated wisdom of the ages.
He is not only handsome, but he has the physical strength which enables him to perform great feats of energy. He can go for nights on end without sleep.
He dresses well and talks with charm.
Men admire him. Women adore him. Tycoons and statesmen are willing to share their secrets with him. He hates lies, meanness and sham but keeps his temper.
When he dies, a lot of people are sorry, and some of them remember him for several days.
Achievements
Works
book
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City Editor
( New York City in the 1920s and 1930s was a great newspa...)
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The Night Club Era
(Scare observations by a writer for the old New Herald Tri...)
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The Night Club Era
( " The Night Club Era should rate as a Broadway Koran. O...)
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City editor,
(1934 first edition, second printing, Frederick A. Stokes ...)
- Dewey: An American of This Century
- Dewey, an American of This Century
- Journey toward the sunlight, a story of the Dominican Republic and its people.
- Journey toward the sunlight,: A story of the Dominican Republic and its people
- The Night Club Era by Stanley Walker (1999-08-10)
- Dewey: An American of This Century by Professor Stanley Walker (2010-09-10)
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City Editor
Personality
He is loyal to his paper and to what he looks upon as his profession. Whether it is a profession or merely a craft, he resents attempts to debase lieutenant
Connections
Married Mary Louise Sandefer, January 2, 1923 (died January 29, 1944). Married second, Ruth Alden Howell, January 19, 1946. Children: Joan Sandefer, James Stanley.
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American