Why you get Peaches and Daddy!

 

Peaches and Daddy: A Story of the Roaring 20’s, The Birth of Tabloid Media & the Courtship that Captured the Heart and Imagination of the American Public by Michael Greenburg is a wonderful new history of the trial that was the water cooler conversation starter of 1927.

When Edward  “Daddy” Browning, the Donald Trump of his time with better hair,  set his cap for Frances “Peaches” Heenan a 15 year old high school dropout,  it set loose a maelstrom of publicity that would have made Brittany at her most nutty baldness so jealous. This story has it all, an acid attack, lots and lots of shopping, tantric sex, the raw food movement, a newspaper art department with way too much time on its hands, and of course the aforementioned African Honking Gander.

 

I personally love any book where the Foreword contains the phrases, “study in dysfunction”, and “lurid details” and also includes the word prurient. Fabulous! Sign me up!

 

Of course, this story does not have a happy ending. How could it? But it will keep you in a state of fascination for all 320 pages. Even if it does have a 300 Dewey designation!