When Mickey Rathbun began to investigate a rumor that her grandfather, George Gordon Moore, had been a model for Fitzgerald\'s iconic character Jay Gatsby, she discovered closer connections than she had ever imagined.
With unflinching candor, she engages themes that are as relevant today as in Fitzgerald\'s time: our single-minded obsession with wealth and social cachet and the mirage of the American Dream..
Rathbun\'s book is an honest exploration of her grandfather\'s astonishing life and legacy.
Tommy Hitchcock, the legendary polo player on whom Fitzgerald based Gatsy\'s Tom Buchanan, was Moore\'s close friend, business partner, and housemate.
These similarities were hardly coincidental
Moore played polo and partied with the social set that inspired The Great Gatsby.
Beyond their hardscrabble western origins, formative sojourns in England, extravagant lifestyles fueled by suspected criminal activities, and pursuit of unattainable women, Moore and Gatsby shared a heightened appreciation for the exquisite possibilities of life, what Fitzgerald called romantic readiness.
In her remarkable, compelling, and beautifully crafted memoir, The Real Gatsby: George Gordon Moore , she examines the striking parallels between the Real person and his fictional doppelganger.
When Mickey Rathbun began to investigate a rumor that her grandfather, George Gordon Moore, had been a model for Fitzgerald\'s iconic character Jay Gatsby, she discovered closer connections than she had ever imagined
