Some Sort of Epic Grandeur Quotes

“Summit Avenue—now regarded as the best-preserved Victorian residential boulevard in America—runs west from the Cathedral of St. Paul four and a half miles to the Mississippi River. The most impressive residence on the street was the mansion of railroad tycoon James J. Hill at No. 240, which provided an icon for the American success story. “Summit Avenue” designated the twelve-square-block neighborhood at the eastern end of Summit above downtown St. Paul.”
― Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They also provide abundant evidence that he was a painstaking reviser. Fitzgerald was concerned with sentence structure and word choice when he polished his prose; he left spelling to editorial hands. His punctuation”
― Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“An ardent anti-Nazi, he was excited by the outbreak of World War II---which he had been predicting---and followed the war news closely. [On F. Scott Fitzgerald]”
― Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald