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by Richard Webb (Author), Robert Steven Williams (Foreword by)
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be one of America's great novels. Richard Webb's Boats Against the Current is an essential document for anyone who has read Gatsby and wondered at the fantastic world whose story it tells.
Author Biography
Richard "Deej" Webb Jr., is an author, an award winning educator, and a documentary filmmaker. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, he has taught history for twenty four years at both the high school and college levels. A featured presenter in the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Prohibition documentary Connecticut Goes Dry, Webb is also co-creator and co-producer with Robert Williams of a documentary film about the Fitzgeralds in Connecticut, which is a companion to this book. He has been a resident of the Westport, Connecticut area since 1967. He lives happily in an historic home with his wife Deborah, and their dogs, Zelda and Daisy.
Foreword by Robert Steven Williams, a Harvard Business School Graduate, music industry consultant and film-maker who lives in Westport, Connecticut.
Williams and Webb have collaborated on a film about Fitzgerald in Westport that will air on public television in 2018.
