The Notorious Ben Hecht : Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist /

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"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 extremis...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gorbach, Julien, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hecht, Ben, > 1894-1964.
Jews > United States > History > 20th century.
Zionism > United States > History > 20th century.
Religious militants > History > 20th century.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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