SwissEduc: Fitzgerald, F. Scott: 1896

The book was written in the middle of the Jazz Age, four years before the stock market crash of 1929.
The Twenties: 1913-1929; from Annenberg/CPS
The roaring 20's with a lot of information about events that occured in the 20's
History of Alcohol Prohibition
Why Prohibition?
Bootlegging
Flapper Culture and Style
Flapper Music with examples
The Lost Generation. The Atlantic Monthly, December 1992
The Publishing Process and the Correction of Factual Errors with Reference to The Great Gatsby by Matthew J. Bruccoli, University of South Carolina
History of The Plaza Hotel
Clothes in the 1920's
Meyer Wolfsheim
- "the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919" (chapter iv), was modeled after Arnold Rothstein, one of the Fitzgerald's neighbors in Great Neck on Long Island. Rothstein was the alleged mastermind of the Black Sox baseball scandal in the 1919 World Series (read especially the information toward the bottom of the page and an article of the St. Petersburg Times of December 22, 1999 or an article by Eric W. Everstine).
J. Gatsby
- may have been modeled after Max von Gerlach, a bootlegger who lived on Long Island
- Professor, private investigator team up in search of the real 'Great Gatsby'; PittsburgLive, September 28, 2002
- Was this the real Jay Gatsby?. The Globe and Mail; August 3, 2002
- Jay Gatsby was inspired by a local Long Island figure, Max Gerlach; from Matthew J. Bruccoli: Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
"Where did Fitzgerald get the idea of having Clay's Economics reside in Nick Carraway's library?" by Ray C. Fair, Yale University; November 2000 (pdf 10 pages)

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