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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940), was the leading writer of America's Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and one of its glittering heroes. The chief quality of Fitzgerald's talent was his ability to be both a leading participant in the high life he described, and a detached observer of it. Few readers saw the serious side of Fitzgerald, and he was not generally recognized as a gifted writer during his lifetime. While he lived, most readers considered his stories a chronicle and even a celebration of moral decline. But later readers realized that Fitzgerald's works have a deeper moral theme.
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Great Gatsby, The, is a famous novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel, published in 1925, is a vivid portrait of the Jazz Age, a name given to the 1920’s in the United States. Fitzgerald was one of the first writers to use the term in his collection of stories Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).
Many reviewers disliked The Great Gatsby when it was first published, but critics and scholars have since recognized it as a classic of American literature. They have praised the novel as an exposure of wealthy American society during the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby examines the false glamour, moral emptiness, futility, and boredom that Fitzgerald saw in the period.
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Cosmopolis (1919-1931) - In this episode, the post-war boom, the rise of consumer culture, and the birth of new mass-media industries fuel the convergence of an incredible array of human and cultural energies, ending with the Crash of 1929 and the construction of the Empire State Building.
In this short but dazzling period, New York became the focal point of an extraordinary array of human and cultural energies. In just over a decade, New York gave birth to its signature skyscrapers, the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings, and to artistic creations like F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY, George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and to the jazz compositions of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Along the way Harlem emerged as the undisputed capital of African-American experience and the new media industries of advertising radio networks, public relations and magazines found their homes in midtown Manhattan.
Portrait of a Decade : the 1920s by
For each year of the decade there is information about world news, sport and the arts, science and technology. There is also a time chart summary and and biographical notes on key figures of the decade.
The Hulton Getty Picture Collection : 1920s by
The Jazz Age. Silent films and strident music. Outrageous fashions and inventions. Revolutions in transport, economic chaos and the first chill winds of Fascism and the Depression - in hundreds of moving and shattering images.