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The notorious Ben Hecht : iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist / Julien Gorbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorbach, Julien, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964.
- Hecht, Ben.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Religious militants--History--20th century.
- Religious militants.
- Zionism--United States--History--20th century.
- Zionism.
- Jews--United States--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (504 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Biography.Ben Hecht had seen his share of death-row psychopaths, crooked ward bosses, and Capone gun thugs by the time he had come of age as a crime reporter in gangland Chicago.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prelude: The Lost Land of Boyhood
- Part I: THE NEWSPAPERMAN: The Chicago School of Journalism
- Chapter 1: The Chicago School
- Chapter 2: Shades of Black: The Stages of Hecht's Cynicism
- Chapter 3: Propagandist in Training
- Chapter 4: The Journalist and the Gangster
- Part II: THE WRITER: The Chicago Renaissance and Hollywood
- Chapter 5: The Chicago Renaissance: Little Children of the Arts
- Chapter 6: Crying in the Wilderness
- Chapter 7: The Un-Jewish Jew
- Chapter 8: Return
- Part III: THE ZIONIST: From Humanist to Public Enemy
- Chapter 9: Jewish Knights: The Bergson Group
- Chapter 10: "Champion in Chains"
- Chapter 11: Campaign for a Jewish Army
- Chapter 12: "A Challenge to the Soul of Men"
- Chapter 13: "One of the Greatest Crimes in History"
- Chapter 14: Blood and Fire
- Chapter 15: Only Thus
- Part IV: THE MEMOIRIST: Writing about L.A.'s Al Capone
- Chapter 16: "Some Kind of Strength"
- Chapter 17: Champion in Chains, Revisited
- Chapter 18: The Old New Journalist
- Chapter 19: Time Out for Psychology
- Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61249-594-X
- OCLC:
- 1090285622
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