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245 14 a| The notorious Ben Hechth| [electronic resource] :b| iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist /c| Julien Gorbach.;

260 a| West Lafayette, Indiana :b| Purdue University Press,c| [2019];

300 a| xxiii, 455 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

500 a| 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.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-344) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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The notorious Ben Hecht iconoclastic writer and militant Zionist / Julien Gorbach.

Author/creator	Gorbach, Julien, 1969-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2019]
Description	xxiii, 455 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964. Authors, American--20th century. --Biography. Religious militants--History. --20th century. Zionism--United States. --History. --20th century. Jews--United States. --History. --20th century.

Uniform title	Crying in the wilderness
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.
Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
General 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.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019008368
ISBN	9781557538659 (paperback)

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