Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy,
and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at
heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners
after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that
Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world
he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a
midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author,
he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts of Lake
Forest, Princeton, and Hollywood-places that left an indelible mark
on his worldview. In this comprehensive biography, Brown reexamines
Fitzgerald's childhood, first loves, and difficult marriage to
Zelda Sayre. He looks at Fitzgerald's friendship with Hemingway,
the golden years that culminated with Gatsby, and his increasing
alcohol abuse and declining fortunes which coincided with Zelda's
institutionalization and the nation's economic collapse. Placing
Fitzgerald in the company of Progressive intellectuals such as
Charles Beard, Randolph Bourne, and Thorstein Veblen, Brown reveals
Fitzgerald as a writer with an encompassing historical imagination
not suggested by his reputation as "the chronicler of the Jazz
Age." His best novels, stories, and essays take the measure of both
the immediate moment and the more distant rhythms of capital
accumulation, immigration, and sexual politics that were moving
America further away from its Protestant agrarian moorings.
Fitzgerald wrote powerfully about change in America, Brown shows,
because he saw it as the dominant theme in his own family history
and life.
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