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Based on revealing letters and other documents from archives, Hemingway and His Conspirators has the dramatic personae of a Hollywood production-with a cast starring not only Hemingway and Perkins, but F. Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Hayes, David O. Selznick, and Gary Cooper. Set in an endlessly fascinating age, the 1920s, it tells a backstage story of the tangle of literature, publishing, and motion pictures in the formative years of a time when the possibilities of a new mass audience challenged and changed culture and literature forever.

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An absorbing and penetrating look at the inside life of famed author Ernest Hemingway. . . . This book is rich in detail. . . . One of the best.--Broox Sledge The Democrat

This reviewer deeply hopes that other scholars will develop the new and extensive mine of information so masterfully and conscieentiously uncovered by Leff in this volume.With this book, the first vein of those riches has been adroitly excavated by Leff. What a glorious hole he has quarried and what a rich ore he has brought to the mint.In short, the author has provided a remarkably powerful tool for understanding and interpreting the development and operation of the most visible segment of the book-trade in North America and much of the rest of the developed world.--Richard Abel Publishing Research Quarterly /, Winter 1998/99

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Leonard J. Leff, author of The Dame in the Kimono (1990) and Hitchcock and Selznick (1987), is professor of English at Oklahoma State University.

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