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02655aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 928F2E48462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 190125t20192019ctua b 001 0beng d 010 $a 2018941583 020 $a 030018042X 020 $a 9780300180428 035 $a (OCoLC)1083340454 040 $a CNB $b eng $e rda $c CNB $d YDXIT $d FEM $d CZA $d OCLCO $d OCP $d OCLCO $d MBB $d OCLCO $d IMT $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3515.E18 $b Z66 2019 082 04 $a 812/.52 $2 23 100 1 $a Hoffman, Adina, $e author. 245 10 $a Ben Hecht : $b fighting words, moving pictures / $c Adina Hoffman. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a x, 245 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Jewish lives 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: The man -- The root -- The news -- The world -- The times -- The screen -- The rogues -- The Jews -- The cry -- The flag -- The child -- Epilogue: The end. 520 $a He was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today." Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts-including Scarface,Twentieth Century, and Notorious-Ben Hecht was known in his day as ace reporter, celebrated playwright, taboo-busting novelist, and the most quick-witted of provocateurs. During World War II, he also emerged as an outspoken crusader for the imperiled Jews of Europe, and later he became a fierce propagandist for pre-1948 Palestine's Jewish terrorist underground. Whatever the outrage he stirred, this self-declared "child of the century" came to embody much that defined America-especially Jewish America-in his time. Hecht's fame has dimmed with the decades, but Adina Hoffman's vivid portrait brings this charismatic and contradictory figure back to life on the page. Hecht was a renaissance man of dazzling sorts, and Hoffman-critically acclaimed biographer, former film critic, and eloquent commentator on Middle Eastern culture and politics-is uniquely suited to capture him in all his modes. 600 10 $a Hecht, Ben, $d 1894-1964. 650 0 $a Screenwriters $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jewish authors $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) 941 $a 3 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20200228010059.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200204030238.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191126012610.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=928F2E48462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search