The 49 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2020
Here is the list of the 55 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Tagged: Ben Hecht
A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and...
The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist by Julien Gorbach
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...
