Jerome Tuccille

A Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man: Romping Through Paris in the 1920s

Hemingway as a young man in Paris

A PORTRAIT OF HEMINGWAY AS A YOUNG MAN is a partly satirical, partly serious homage to the men and women whom many regard as perhaps the greatest literary generation in modern times. Like other writers of my generation, and the generation that came before me, I grew up in the shadows of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, and other great writers of the early twentieth century. I have written this book with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek, but also with great respect and admiration for Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Morley Callaghan, and other truly fine writers of perhaps the most glamorous era in twentieth-century literature. I have wanted to write this book for some time for therapeutic as well as literary reasons. And now it is done. God bless writers all over the world. And God bless writers who bend themselves to their craft because to spend their lives doing anything else is nothing less than the height of folly and self-destruction.

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Selected Works

Nonfiction

The War Against the Vets

“Who Murdered the Vets?” writer Ernest Hemingway demanded in an impassioned article about the deaths of hundreds of former soldiers. Their fate came as part of the larger and often overlooked story of veterans of the Great War and their deplorable treatment by the government they once served.

Three years earlier, under orders from President Herbert Hoover, General Douglas MacArthur led the U.S. military through the streets of the nation’s capital against an encampment of veterans and their families. The vets were suffering the ravages of the Great Depression and seeking an early payment of promised war bonuses. Tanks, troops, and cavalry burned down tents and leveled campsites in a savage and lethal effort to disperse the protesters, resulting in the murder of several demonstrators.

The administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt subsequently shipped the vets to distant work camps in the Florida Keys, where they were housed in flimsy tent cities that fell prey to a hurricane of which the authorities had been given ample warning. It was in reaction to the hundreds of bodies left in the storm’s wake that Hemingway penned his provocative words.

The War Against the Vets is the first book about the Bonus Army to describe in detail the political battles that threatened to tear the country apart, as well as the scandalous treatment of the World War I vets.

History, Military, African-American

The Roughest Riders: the Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War

The inspiring story of the first African American soldiers to serve during the post-slavery era.

Fiction

The World of Kurt Vonnegut: Freezing Time

Our hero is frozen when he dies and emerges in a strange and Disneyfied future.

Biography

King of Media: The Barry Diller Story

King of Media is the remarkable story of a man who has risen to the top of the entertainment industry over the course of forty years.

Hemingway and Gellhorn

The Untold Story of Two Writers, Espionage, War, and the Great Depression

Gallo Be Thy Name

The Inside Story of How One Family Rose to Dominate the U.S. Wine Market

Kingdom: The Story of the Hunts of Texas

Kingdom is a fascinating story of the fabulous H.L. Hunt that reads like a novel

Gallery of Fools: The True Story of a Celebrated Manhattan Art Theft

"A hilarious true story that reads like an Ellmore Leonard novel," said one reviewer. "Anyone who reads this book will understand why."

It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand

A partly serious, partly satiric romp through the wild and woolly circles of the kooky right

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