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Thirty-seven days later, amid blaring headlines announcing the event and with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in close pursuit, they were married. Within ten months they would begin a courtroom drama that would blow their impassioned saga into a national scandal. Their 1920s romance sent riptides across the moral landscape of America for years to come. Peaches and Daddy vividly recounts the amazing and improbable romance, marriage, and ultimate legal battle for separation of this publicity-craving Manhattan couple in America’s “Era of Wonderful Nonsense.†Their story is one of dysfunction and remarkable excess; yet at the time, the lurid details of their brief courtship and marriage captured the imagination of the American public like no other story of its day. The affair propelled them into the headlines for a magical moment in time; their legacy is one of an enduring contribution to the sometimes almost mad history of the country.
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Haider Kazim
reviewed Peaches and Daddy: A Story of the Roaring 20s, the Birth of Tabloid Media and the Courtship That Captured the Heart and Imagination of the American Public on May 02, 2009
Peaches and Daddy: A Story of the Roaring 20s, the Birth of Tabloid Media and the Courtship That Captured the Heart and Imagination of the American Public
This true story of the 1920s was totally fascinating. I'd like the Coen brothers to make a film of it, please. But it was so awkwardly written that I kept being pulled out of the events. Perhaps after reading so many contemporary newspaper accounts this hyperbolic, florid style felt right to the author. I didn't dig it.
Also, the book seemed to have been copyedited by a spellcheck program. I know I'm being nit-picky, but here are some examples (there were more):
Browning's problems seemed to multiple by the hour (p 88)
Browning had come home in a fowl frame of mind (p 241)
She peaked in the mirror (p 243)
The shear breadth of Browing's pending estate (p 313)
I was really excited to learn about a Jazz Age scandal that was new to me. But I lost a little faith in the whole thing when, on page 14, Greenburg mentions that "Fatty Arbuckle stood accused of the...death of a party guest in his home." Everyone (well, everyone with weird interests that correspond with mine) knows that the infamous party that effectively ended Fatty Arbuckle's career was held at the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco, not his home.
Still, I finished the book gladly, eager to find out the entire bizarre story of Peaches and Daddy.
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