Fitzgerald, F. Scott: 1896 - 1940
The Great Gatsby, 1925 - Background
- Facts | The 1920s | Alcohol | Meyer Wolfshiem
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Facts
- The book was written in the middle of the Jazz Age, four years before the stock market crash of 1929.
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The 1920s
- The roaring 20's with a lot of information about events that occured in the 20's
- Flappers in the Roaring Twenties
- Fashion of the early Twenties
- Dance Moves from the 1920s
- 1920s dances featuring the Charleston, the Peabody, Turkey Trot and more
- Alcohol
- Meyer Wolfshiem
- "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).