First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby still sells half a million copies a year. Both a brilliant evocation of the Jazz Age in all its exhausting glory and a satire of a country obsessed with money and power, F Scott Fitzgerald's novel is lauded as one of the greatest ever written in English. His editor Max Perkins described it as "a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism".
Readers might think they know Brent Cummings, the main character in David Finkel's "An American Dreamer." He's "a white, male, pickup-driving ex-soldier living in a Georgia county where in 2016 Donald Trump received 71 percent of the votes."
But people are complicated. And one of the strengths of
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