I was thinking of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald today because we saw the massive house in Newport, RI where they shot the Gatsby movie on our trip last weekend (despite the book being set on Long Island). It's also a great book to read in depressed times to remind ourselves that we never seem to learn the lesson of boom times - that they don't last for ever. This seems to be a trend as the book only sold 25,000 copies when it was first printed in 1925. It didn't become popular until after the Second World War when prosperity returned to the US.
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