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Author : Ben Hecht
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of Ben Hecht written by Ben Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories, a play, and TV script.
Author : Joe Klaas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789010024947
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Vlucht door de hel written by Joe Klaas and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adina Hoffman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030018042X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Ben Hecht written by Adina Hoffman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist He was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today." Besides tossing off 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 Palestine's 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. Hecht's fame has dimmed with the decades, but Adina Hoffman's 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 modes. About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. More praise for Jewish Lives: "Excellent" -New York Times "Exemplary" -Wall St. Journal "Distinguished" -New Yorker "Superb" -The Guardian
Author : Lawrence Jeffrey Epstein
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780876688908
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (889 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes written by Lawrence Jeffrey Epstein and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1989 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : Ben Hecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Guide for the Bedevilled written by Ben Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julien Gorbach
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612495958
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Notorious Ben Hecht written by Julien Gorbach and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. His grim experience with what he called “the soul of man” gave him a kind of uncanny foresight a decade later, when a loose cannon named Adolf Hitler began to rise to power in central Europe. In 1932, Hecht solidified his legend as "the Shakespeare of Hollywood" with his thriller Scarface, the Howard Hughes epic considered the gangster movie to end all gangster movies. But Hecht rebelled against his Jewish bosses at the movie studios when they refused to make films about the Nazi menace. Leveraging his talents and celebrity connections to orchestrate a spectacular one-man publicity campaign, he mobilized pressure on the Roosevelt administration for an Allied plan to rescue Europe’s Jews. Then after the war, Hecht became notorious, embracing the labels “gangster” and “terrorist” in partnering with the mobster Mickey Cohen to smuggle weapons to Palestine in the fight for a Jewish state. 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.
Author : George Fetherling
Publisher : Lester & Orpen Dennys Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Five Lives of Ben Hecht written by George Fetherling and published by Lester & Orpen Dennys Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a writer, Ben Hecht (1894-1964) operated on many fronts and just as many levels. As a Chicago reporter in the wide-open 1920s, he created a frenetic and extravagant style of journalism. Later, he made his mark as a novelist of the bizarre, and was also one of the most popular playwrights of his day. Still later, as a screenwriter and sometime director in the golden age of Hollywood, he left a permanent stamp on films and on movie legend. Hecht was a prolific writer (35 books and twice as many films) and has come to seem just as prodigious in the combined folklore of Broadway, the movie industry and the newspaper business. But the fact that he worked in so many fields simultaneously has tended to blur his reputation. In this introduction to Hecht's personality and works, Doug Fetherling breaks Hecht's career into five overlapping "lives" or phases. First, there are the darlings of the avant garde, Hecht the Iconoclast and Hecht the Bohemian, at war with the ordinary, who brought about a new appreciation of the modern urban sensibility. Next was Hecht the Sophisticate, who mixed a unique concoction of sentiment and cynicism, a blend that remains a feature of his work and of popular culture between the wars. Then there was Hecht the Propagandist, who, in his work on behalf of the Jewish people, managed to alienate all sides of a bitterly fought series of political confrontations. Finally, there was Hecht the Memoirist who, drawing on previous selves, brought new vigor to what is often a stodgy literary form. While the Hollywood Hecht is best remembered today, Fetherling argues that the whole of his work must be viewed before we can gain insight into any of its parts. In so doing, he has written the first serious examination of a writer who, while at odds with his times, is one without whom they would not have been quite the same.--From publisher description.
Author : Sidney Greenberg
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789126215
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of the Art of Living written by Sidney Greenberg and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Treasury of the Art of Living brings together the keenest observations of the world’s greatest thinkers. “Great men taken in any way,” wrote Thomas Carlyle, “are profitable company.” They are perhaps most profitable when they speak to us about the dilemmas, the problems and the anxieties that weigh heavily upon our hearts and minds. We in our time are the heirs of all that these thinkers have ever thought and written. Their literary harvest is more accessible than ever before and it is more desperately needed than ever before. In this collection, Sidney Greenberg has included only the wisest and most inspirational thoughts of great thinkers. There are 86 themes in this therapeutic collection, including the art of living, of living happily, of living at our best, of living with our families and our fellow man, of living with our heritage, and of living when life is difficult. George McDonald wrote, “Instead of a gem or a flower, cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend.” A Treasury of the Art of Living is a collection of lovely thoughts and ideas that are constructive and calculated to bring out the best in us and to deepen our commitment to enduring moral and ethical values.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Brown Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ben Hecht, Hollywood Screenwriter written by Jeffrey Brown Martin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index: 1959-1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411650654
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book HOLLYWOOD 'B' MOVIES: A Treasury of Spills, Chills & Thrills written by John Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid-1930s, cinema patrons insisted on value-for-money. Double feature programs became mandatory at all neighborhood cinemas. Usually the "A" feature film figured as the main attraction, and the supporting movie, the "B." Sometimes that role was reversed. On many occasions picturegoers felt the unheralded "B" movie had actually proved more entertaining than the widely advertised "A" attraction. More than two hundred of these wonderful "B" film classics from Hollywood's golden age are described, reviewed and detailed in this book. It's a must-have for all film addicts, movie fans and nostalgia connoisseurs.
Author : Kevin Kerrane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684846306
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Art of Fact written by Kevin Kerrane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-08-03 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and illuminating survey of literary journalism with both historical and international scope, this anthology is the only one of its kind. In a series of sparkling readings, Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda trace the evolution of the so-called "new" journalism back to the 18th century.
Author : Jeffrey Brown Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Screenplays of Ben Hecht written by Jeffrey Brown Martin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Uriel Ribalow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of American Jewish Stories written by Harold Uriel Ribalow and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael C. Thomsett
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476611475
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book A Speaker's Treasury of Quotations written by Michael C. Thomsett and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every public speaker can benefit from an apt quotation to illuminate a speaking point. This compilation of 2,116 quotations in 263 broad subject categories is useful for political, motivational, and other public speakers along with speech writers, planners, and researchers. The topics range from Ability (“Out of my lean and low ability I’ll lend you something”—Shakespeare) to Youth (“I suppose it’s difficult for the young to realize that one may be old without being a fool”—William Somerset Maugham). Each entry is credited to its author, the work in which it appeared (when appropriate), and the date of origin. There are two indexes: of authors (to topics and their entry numbers) and of highly detailed keywords-in-context (to their entries).
Author : Francis Turner Palgrave
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293393482
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics ... - Primary Source Edition written by Francis Turner Palgrave and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
