Background and Context Documents

Reader's Guide to The Great Gatsby includes nonfiction documents from and about the Roaring Twenties that bring Fitzgerald's—and Jay Gatsby's—world to life.

Coolidge Prosperity

Frederick Lewis Allen

The Age of Play

Robert L. Duffus

The Ballyhoo Years

Frederick Lewis Allen

The Flourishing of Jazz

Michael Brooks

The Evolution of the Flapper

Elizabeth Stevenson

Playing Along the Danger Line: Women in the 1920s

Sheila Rowbotham

The Bootlegger

Joseph K. Willing

Profile of a Bootlegger

Edward Behr

Conspicuous Consumption

Thorstein Veblen

Alienation and Social Classes

Karl Marx1-800-222-5870

The Horatio Alger Myth

Ralph D. Gardner

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (selection)

Benjamin Franklin

Selected Letters

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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