{"product_id":"ben-hecht-adina-hoffman-9780300251814","title":"Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe 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 \u003ci\u003eScarface, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwentieth Century, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNotorious\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adina Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300251815\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300251814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Adina Hoffman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983575646463,"sku":"9780300251814","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd0a9771-dd7c-47f6-a15e-7a92fcb8985e.jpg?v=1683267464","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ben-hecht-adina-hoffman-9780300251814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}