{"product_id":"under-the-red-white-and-blue-patriotism-disenchantment-and-the-stubborn-myth-of-the-great-gatsby-9780300261394","title":"Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby","description":"\u003cb\u003eA deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \"astute, challenging, and far-reaching\" look (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred) at how F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Now more than ever, we need to think long and hard about our collective national fantasies. There's no one better suited to this task than Greil Marcus.\"--David Treuer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeartbeat of Wounded Knee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e. An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of all sorts over nearly a century, Fitzgerald's story has become a key to American culture and American life itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Marcus follows the arc of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e from 1925 into the ways it has insinuated itself into works by writers such as Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler; found echoes in the work of performers from Jelly Roll Morton to Lana Del Rey; and continued to rewrite both its own story and that of the country at large in the hands of dramatists and filmmakers from the 1920s to John Collins's 2006 \u003ci\u003eGatz \u003c\/i\u003eand Baz Luhrmann's critically reviled (here celebrated) 2013 movie version--the fourth, so far.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300261394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.75h x 5.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Greil Marcus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40843676057781,"sku":"9780300261394","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c0fde41b-fd9c-4255-84f7-bb6e134123a6.jpg?v=1629809239","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/under-the-red-white-and-blue-patriotism-disenchantment-and-the-stubborn-myth-of-the-great-gatsby-9780300261394","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}