Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

by Adina Hoffman

Book Overview

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant portrait of Ben Hecht, one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters

"Adina Hoffman's superb [book] . . . loads Hecht's staggering contradictions into a compact but abounding two hundred twenty pages. . . . She writes with enormous flair."--David Denby, New Yorker

"To boil down such a profuse, not to say verbose, career, into so compact a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030018042X
• ISBN13: 9780300180428
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.3"