Enquiring Minds: The Untold Story of the Man Behind the National Enquirer

Recounts the strange history of the National Enquirer and the tabloid's legendary publisher, Generoso Pope Jr. Purchasing the paper in 1952, allegedly with Mob financing, Pope showed an uncanny knack for assessing what the public wanted, using first sex and gore, and later celebrity gossip and the supernatural, to ramp up his circulation to unheard-of numbers, presaging today's celebrity-journalism-driven culture. (docnyc.net)