# Boats Against the Current (Centennial Edition): The Honeymoon Summer of Scott and Zelda: Westport, Connecticut 1920 - Hardcover

by **Richard Webb** (Author), **Robert Steven Williams** (Foreword by)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's _The Great Gatsby_ is considered by many to be one of America's great novels. Richard Webb's _Boats Against the Current_ is an essential document for anyone who has read _Gatsby_ and wondered at the fantastic world whose story it tells.

### Author Biography

Richard "Deej" Webb Jr., is an author, an award winning educator, and a documentary filmmaker. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, he has taught history for twenty four years at both the high school and college levels. A featured presenter in the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Prohibition documentary Connecticut Goes Dry, Webb is also co-creator and co-producer with Robert Williams of a documentary film about the Fitzgeralds in Connecticut, which is a companion to this book. He has been a resident of the Westport, Connecticut area since 1967. He lives happily in an historic home with his wife Deborah, and their dogs, Zelda and Daisy.

Foreword by Robert Steven Williams, a Harvard Business School Graduate, music industry consultant and film-maker who lives in Westport, Connecticut.

Williams and Webb have collaborated on a film about Fitzgerald in Westport that will air on public television in 2018.

**Number of Pages:** 192

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 9.1 x 12.5 IN

**Publication Date:** June 26, 2018

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