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The notorious Ben Hecht : iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist
- Title
- The notorious Ben Hecht : iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist / Julien Gorbach.
- Author
- Gorbach, Julien, 1969-
- Publication
- West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 453 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist is a biography of a great twentieth century writer that treats his activism during the 1940s as the central drama of his life. It details the story of how Hecht earned admiration as a humanitarian and vilification as an extremist at this pivotal moment in history, about the origins of his beliefs in his varied experiences in American media, and about the consequences. Who else but Hecht could have drawn the admiration of Ezra Pound, clowned around with Harpo Marx, written Notorious! and Spellbound with Alfred Hitchcock, launched Marlon Brando's career, ghosted Marilyn Monroe's memoirs, hosted Jack Kerouac and Salvador Dalí on his television talk show, and plotted revolt with Menachem Begin? Any lover of modern history who follows this journey through the worlds of gangsters, reporters, Jazz Age artists, Hollywood stars, movie moguls, political radicals, and guerrilla fighters will never look at the twentieth century in the same way again"--
- Uniform Title
- Crying in the wilderness
- Alternative Title
- Crying in the wilderness
- Subjects
- Jews
- Zionism
- Authors, American
- Religious militants
- 1900-1999
- Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
- Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964
- History
- Jews > United States > History > 20th century
- United States
- Jewish authors > United States > 20th century > Biography
- Zionism > United States > History > 20th century
- Biography
- Religious militants > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013, titled Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-344) and index.
- Contents
- The Chicago School -- Shades of black : the stages of Hecht's cynicism -- Propagandist in training -- The journalist and the gangster -- The Chicago renaissance : little children of the arts -- Crying in the wilderness -- The un-Jewish Jew -- Return -- Jewish knights : the Bergson Group -- "Champion in chains" -- Campaign for a Jewish army -- "A challenge to the soul of men" -- "One of the greatest crimes in history" -- Blood and fire -- Only thus -- "Some kind of strength" -- Champion in chains, revisited -- The old new journalist -- Time out for psychology.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8015
- ISBN
- 9781557538659
- 1557538654
- LCCN
- 2019008368
- OCLC
- 1046109676
- Author
- Gorbach, Julien, 1969- author.
- Title
- The notorious Ben Hecht : iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist / Julien Gorbach.
- Publisher
- West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-344) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8015