One hundred years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," a tragic tale of striving featuring an enigmatic millionaire, was published – and it bombed. Since then, its reputation has only grown, to where many consider it the Great American Novel.
Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with a Fitzgerald descendant about the author's legacy; and visits Fitzgerald's old haunts, where his characters would have rubbed shoulders with "the very rich" during the Jazz Age.
Lands End, a magnificent estate on Long Island’s North Shore, fired the imagination of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who lived across the bay, as he wrote the classic “The Great Gatsby.” But time did not treat Lands End as well as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, and in 2011 the 21,000-sq.-ft. mansion went under the wrecking ball. Correspondent Serena Altschul reported on the history of Lands End, and of Fitzgerald’s experience on the moneyed Gold Coast, in this story originally broadcast on “Sunday Morning” April 17, 2011.
Death of the “Great Gatsby House”
