The Notorious Ben Hecht : Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9781612495941
- 813.52
- PS3515.E18 .G673 2019
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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