As a Gatsby hater, I did the math and the number copies of Gatsby the military gave away would have been to less than one percent of the men serving. Maybe they passed the book around I don't know. Gatsby did not get popular until Edmund Wilson called it the Great American novel.
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I've been reading about that in WHEN BOOKS WENT TO WAR. The Armed Services Editions also made A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN hugely popular and successful.
As a Gatsby hater, I did the math and the number copies of Gatsby the military gave away would have been to less than one percent of the men serving. Maybe they passed the book around I don't know. Gatsby did not get popular until Edmund Wilson called it the Great American novel.
Was that just the European Theater of Operations? I don't remember my dad ever mentioning the availability of ASEs in Australia...
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