Coolidge was in the White House, gin was in the bathtub, and U.S. tabloid journalism was in its bawling, irresponsible infancy. Worst of all, more brazen even than the brassy era it covered ...
It was where he refined his version of tabloid journalism for the American market. It was his entree to the Big Apple, where much of America’s media was headquartered, and meant he got noticed ...