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Nelson W. Aldrich
Books by Nelson W. Aldrich
American Hero
The True Story of Tommy Hitchcock--Sports Star, War Hero, and Champion of the War-Winning P-51 Mustang
Foreword by W. Averell Harriman / Introduction by Richard L. Jackson
This is the true story of Tommy Hitchcock, a war hero, the world’s greatest polo player, businessman, husband of a Mellon, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s idol after whom he fashioned two of his most famous fictional characters.Born in 1900 to a wealthy Long Island family of fox hunters and polo player...
American Hero
The True Story of Tommy Hitchcock--Sports Star, War Hero, and Champion of the War-Winning P-51 Mustang
Foreword by W. Averell Harriman / Introduction by Richard L. Jackson
Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time. To Scott Fitzgerald, Tommy embodied the ideal of the aristocratic man of action, basing two of his chara...