Contributors include Harold Bloom, Jules Feiffer, John Guare, Norman Mailer, Peter Matthiessen, Maggie Paley, Richard Price, James Salter, Robert Silvers, William Styron, Gay Talese, Calvin Trillin, Gore Vidal, and 200 other Plimpton intimates Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. This book is the party that was George's life-and it's a big one-attended by scores of famous people, as well as lesser-known intimates and acquaintances. They talk about his life: its privileged beginnings, its wild and triumphant middle, its brave, sad end. They say that...
Contributors include Harold Bloom, Jules Feiffer, John Guare, Norman Mailer, Peter Matthiessen, Maggie Paley, Richard Price, James Salter, Robert Silv...
Nelson W., Jr. Aldrich W. Averel Richard L. Jackson
This is the true story of Tommy Hitchcock, a war hero, the world s greatest polo player, businessman, husband of a Mellon, and F. Scott Fitzgerald s idol after whom he fashioned two of his most famous fictional characters. Born in 1900 to a wealthy Long Island family of fox hunters and polo players, he joined the French Lafayette Flying Corps at age 17 when the U.S. Air Force said he was too young for combat flying in World War I. He shot down two German planes before being shot down himself. At age 18, he was captured and was put on a German prisoner train from which he leapt to freedom and...
This is the true story of Tommy Hitchcock, a war hero, the world s greatest polo player, businessman, husband of a Mellon, and F. Scott Fitzgerald s i...