CHAPTER TWENTY-THREEJesse had no idea what he was getting himself into when he decided to do a story about a man winning custody of his ten-year-old son. The lead paragraph was simple enough: “It cost Peter Garrison $1,200 to have his son returned. He didn’t have to pay ransom; the money was spent on legal fees.”
The public outcry on a father taking a child away from his mother was so intense that Jesse had to stop answering his phone. Letters to the editor began pouring in, quoting everything from the Bible to the Saturday Evening Post on why men shouldn’t be raising children alone.
One night, three grandmotherly women wearing long suffragette dresses burst into the newsroom, carrying signs and shouting about how the divorce epidemic was destroying the American family and ruining the co
