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Title: Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Author: HOFFMAN ADINA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/04/2020
Imprint: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $22.95
Publishing status: Active
Besides a prolific screenwriting career, encompassing 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 Palestines 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.
Hechts fame has dimmed in the decades since his death, but Adina Hoffmans 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 far-flung modes.biographical portraits, accomplishes a great deal in a relatively compact form” —Michael Phillips, TheStarspost.com