Includes a list of illustrations focusing on Walker's political career with debuts by his family.

Includes index.

The beau of New York --

Part One: 1. Remembrance of things once green -- 2. The street of the third Evangelist -- 3. The villagers -- 4. Fathers know best -- 5. Tin Pan Alley -- 6. Earthquakes and roses -- 7. There was a tavern in the town -- 8. Capitol Hill -- 9. The gallery god -- 10. The time of skyrockets -- 11. The point of view? -- 12. Who has seen the wind? -- 13. Some of those days -- 14. The world is waiting at the sunrise -- 15. Decision at the half moon -- 16. Ring in the new -- 17. Merrily he rolled along -- 18. Master of ceremonies -- 19. The man who was seven feet tall -- 20. To castle comer and beyond -- 21. When knighthood was in clover? -- 22. Hold everything? -- 23. Who can say no? -- 24. The last fling? -- 25. As the sparks fly upward -- 26. The grand inquisitor -- 27. Where are you going, my pretty maid? -- 28. Three things a man must do alone -- 29. The tournament of champions -- 30. In the hall of governors --

Part Two :16. Ring in the new -- 17. Merrily he rolled along -- 18. Master of ceremonies -- 19. The man who was seven feet tall -- 20. To castle comer and beyond -- 21. When knighthood was in clover? -- 22. Hold everything? -- 23. Who can say no? -- 24. The last fling? -- 25. As the sparks fly upward -- 26. The grand inquisitor -- 27. Where are you going, my pretty maid? -- 28. Three things a man must do alone -- 29. The tournament of champions -- 30. In the hall of governors --

Part Three: 31. Weep nor more, my lady -- 32. The thatch and other things -- 33. Home again -- 34. The tree and the gales -- 35. Across the river.

"His great days were the days of revelry, from the end of World War I to Roosevelt's first election, the extravaganza of the twenties before the great hangover began. There were the days of millionaires and gangsters, of Lindbergh's first flight and Rothstein's murder, of speakeasies and bull markets. The whole sequin-studded epoch is set forth here, as is the public and private life of debanoir Beau James/ The famous and infamous figures of the day parade through the narrative, and here for the first time is in told the moving story of Jim's love for the beautiful Betty Compton.... He wanted to be a songwriter, but won the second biggest political job in the United States...The book spans more than the twenties, [and continues on to discuss family and their further political and private investigations.] -- book jacket