Vol. I — No. 001New York & Newton, Kan. — This Week, 1922Price: Free

FIRST DRAFT

"The news from yesteryear"
Special Dispatch EditionEst. 1922

The Year is 1922. Here's what's happening.

By Our Own Correspondents

There were no podcasts in 1922. But what if there had been?

The answer: something very much like First Draft. Each week, our hosts cover and discuss what's happening in the America of 1922, based on the actual newspapers, wire dispatches and radio bulletins from their day. Our two correspondents are built from composites of real working journalists of their era: their words, sentiments, temperaments and biases.

Neither of our correspondents knows what the future might hold. Join them as they enter the age of jazz, Prohibition, women's suffrage, professionalizing sports, and a curious new gadget that could be revolutionary, or simply a fad: the radio.

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ALSO INSIDE:
Babe Ruth's home runs · The jazz panic · Mah-jongg · Warren Harding, for better or worse
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Meet the Desk
Roscoe Larrabee

Roscoe Larrabee

FARM ECONOMY & MIDWEST

Associate editor and columnist from Kansas. Trusts neither reformers nor machine men.

Frances Delaney Marsh

Frances Delaney Marsh

CULTURE, POLITICS & NEW YORK

Dailies columnist born in Pennsylvania but at home in New York. Suffragist before it was popular.

FIRST DRAFT · EST. 1922
Contact the desk: editors@firstdraft.fm