Tom Buchanan (born 1892) was an American businessman from Long Island, New York.
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Tom Buchanan was born into a wealthy family in Chicago, Illinois in 1892, and he later moved East to study at Yale University alongside Nick Carraway. He did not fight in World War I, instead living off of his family's fortune, and he married Daisy Fay, the former girlfriend of Jay Gatsby. Buchanan was an abusive husband, both physically and emotionally, and he often spent his time playing polo or golf at his lavish estate in East Egg, Long Island, New York, or going to New York City with his mistress Myrtle Wilson. He was also deeply racist, reading the book The Rise of the Colored Empires, which led him to believe that non-whites would soon outbreed whites, and that whites and blacks would inevitably marry and create mixed-race children, threatening the white "master race". In 1922, Fay and Gatsby reunited, and they resumed their affair with Carraway's help. After Buchanan confronted Gatsby at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan and angrily sent Fay back to Long Island in Gat
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Name:Tom Buchanan
Age:46
From: Rich Valley, Virginia
Marital Status:Married 23 years
Occupation:Goat And Cattle Farmer
Luxury Item:Lucky Charm
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Born and raised in Rich Valley, Virginia, Tom Buchanan currently works as a self-employed goat and cattle farmer on the ranch that has been in his family for three generations.
Buchanan attended Rich Valley High School, where he played football, basketball and baseball. He also served as student body president. He then attended East Tennessee State University as a football walk-on and later earned a full football scholarship, serving as team captain his senior year. After college, he returned home to work on the family farm. Known to his friends as "Big Tom," his hobbies include softball, fishing, bird hunting
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Professor Tom Buchanan
Biography
I was educated at Wadham College, Oxford for my BA in History (1982) and at St Antony's. Oxford, for my DPhil (1987).
Teaching
I joined OUDCE as Director of Studies in History and Politics in 1990. I teach C19th and C20th British and European History, with a particular interest in mid-C20th Europe (from the 1930s to the 1960s). I teach an optional paper on the Spanish Civil War on the Undergraduate Certificate in History.
I have supervised DPhil students on topics connected to the Spanish Civil War and British C20th history.
Research interests
My research is mainly concerned with political and social interactions between Britain and the wider world in the twentieth century. I have written three books and numerous articles on the impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain. My most recent books are East Wind: China and the British left, 1925-1976 (OUP, 2012) and Amnesty International and human rights activism in post-war Britain, 1945-1977 (CUP, 2020). The second edition of my book on post-war Europe (Europe’s Troubled P