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A Child of the Century / Ben Hecht.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hecht, Ben, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964.
- Hecht, Ben.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- United States--Civilization--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 654 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. “His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting.”—Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time’s list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it “the un-put-downable testament of the era’s great multimedia entertainer.”
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Book One. WHO AM I?
- Book Two. THE CALIPHATE
- Book Three. CHICAGO
- Book Four. I WAS A REPORTER
- Book Five. ARTIST, FRIEND, AND MONEYMAKER
- Book Six. THE COMMITTEE
- Index
- Notes:
- Originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1954. Introduction copyright ©2020.
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-25368-0
- OCLC:
- 1139710449
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