Did you know that, in Spring 1940, the once famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald was recruited by an agent of the French Resistance to assassinate the premier of Vichy France? Fitzgerald had hijacked the “Jazz Age” and made it his own in the Roaring 20s, but now as a struggling, impecunious alcoholic, his comforts are Coca-Colas and the elusive embrace of his paramour, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham
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