Jerome TuccilleCríticas

This is a memoir or rather an odyssey of sorts about the road taken by many in the 1960s in their search for an alternative to traditional politics. It is those who were inspired by the novels of Ayn Rand and sought alternatives that allowed more individual freedom. In Tucille's case that led to a sort of radical libertarianism bordering on anarchism.½

12/9/21

Greenspan, Alan (Subject)

I read this earlier book after already reading the sequel "Hemingway and Gellhorn: The Untold Story of Two Writers, Espionage, War, and the Great Depression" and this was definitely in the same trashy exploitative vein as the second one.

it makes for some entertainment but rewriting Hemingway's own Paris memoir "A Moveable Feast" as biography (when Hemingway himself admitted it could be read as fiction and a lot of it has been proved as such in Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin's "Ernest Hemingway's a Moveable Feast") seems like an invitation to be prosecuted for plagiarism

This is a self-published exploitation biography written to cash in on the free publicity from the HBO "Hemingway and Gellhorn" film of 2012. Jerome Tuccille certainly did his research by assembling the fragments of the story from the sources listed in the 4 pages of material that he lists in the bibliography. But Tuccille is of the "print the legend" school and the wilder and more outrageous stories, whether true or not, take precedence, usually with each chapter ending in a string of exclamation marks. The story is only "untold" in the sense that no one else has packaged it in quite this way. All of the Hemingway biographies discuss 3rd wife Martha Gellhorn to some degree, since she was a major inspiration for his epic novel of the Spanish Civil War "For Whom the Bell Tolls".

So, this is somewhat trashy, but it is an entertaining read and it will likely make you want to read some more Ernest Hemingway and perhaps discover Martha Gellhorn's works as well, or perhaps one of the serious biographies such as Michael S. Reynolds' Hemingway: The 1930s through the Final Years or Caroline Moorehead's Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life. So that still earns Tuccille's book a plus vote in my view. Just be sure to take some of the stories with a pinch of salt.

p.s. Tuccille has also written an earlier Hemingway biographical fiction called A Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man: Romping Through Paris in the 1920s.

Interesting. About the libertarian movement.

If you enjoyed The Paris Wife, you will probably enjoy this memoir of Hemingway's third marriage to Martha Gellhorn, who was quite a lady! A good gossipy read.½

This book was an unauthorized attempt to chronicle Trump's life. The author met many roadblocks in writing this book. I thought that this book would be a hatchet job and a fairly negative look at Trump. However, Tuccille admits where there is a conflict and I felt did a very good job writing about Trump, his family, and business. Despite the fact that Tuccille only got one chance to talk with those close to Trump there is are many interesting details. Interestingly, Trump's book The Art of the Deal, seems to be an answer to this book.

Good read-wasn't aware of how much he was influenced by Ayn Rand’s book, The Fountainhead. While i have some business background, if you like phrases like tight money supplies and short term rates, you'll like it.

An entertaining description of an attempt to create a radical libertarian movement in the sixties, with insider accounts of such personalities as Rand, Murray Rothbard, and Karl Hess.