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Francis Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories.

Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family.

In 1925 Fitzgerald wrote the novel to show how the roaring 20's where i.e the life style.

In 1937, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, and he made his highest annual income thus far of $29,757.87.[20] Most of the income came from short story sales. Besides writing, he also started to get involved in the film industry. Although he reportedly found movie work degrading, Fitzgerald was once again in dire financial straits, and spent the second half of the 1930s in Hollywood, working on commercial short stories, scripts for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (including some unfilmed work on Gone with the Wind).
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

AUTHOR OF THE GREAT GATSBY
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories.

Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family.

In 1925 Fitzgerald wrote the novel to show how the roaring 20's where i.e the life style.

In 1937, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, and he made his highest annual income thus far of $29,757.87.[20] Most of the income came from short story sales. Besides writing, he also started to get involved in the film industry. Although he reportedly found movie work degrading, Fitzgerald was once again in dire financial straits, and spent the second half of the 1930s in Hollywood, working on commercial short stories, scripts for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (including some unfilmed work on Gone with the Wind).
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FLAPPER

Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and listened to jazz.

Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, and driving automobiles.


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PROHIBTION

prohibition, is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, storage, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages.

Any alcohol that was intended for sale and that was discovered by law enforcement has to be destroyed.
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BOOTLEGGER

Bootlegger: is a person that smuggles alcohol, bootlegging is the the act of smuggling alcohol.

The term bootlegger comes from the actual act of sticking the alcohol down the leg of your boot.

Bootleggers were the middle men in getting alcohol into/around the U.S, the bootlegger would receive the alcohol from the supplier and traffic it to clubs and other places.
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ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN

JEWISH AMERICAN RACKETEER
Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 – November 6, 1928).

Nicknamed "the Brain," was a Jewish-American racketeer, businessman and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York.

Rothstein was widely reputed to have organized corruption in professional athletics, conspiring in the fixing of the 1919 World Series.

Rothstein saw the opportunities for business:
-he diversified into bootlegging and narcotics.
-liquor was brought in by smuggling along the Hudson River, as well as from Canada across the Great Lakes and into upstate New York.
-Rothstein also purchased holdings in a number of speakeasies.
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AMERICAN DREAM

The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work.

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