The Language of Newspapers: Socio-Historical Perspectives Book

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.