A Child of the Century

A Child of the Century

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hecht became an active Zionist after meeting Peter Bergson, who came to the United States near the start of World War II. Motivated by what became the Holocaust the mass-murder of Jews in Europe, Hecht wrote articles and plays, such as "We Will Never Die" in 1943 and "A Flag is Born" in 1946. Thereafter, he wrote many screenplays anonymously to avoid a British boycott of his work in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The boycott was a response to Hecht's active support of paramilitary action against British Mandate for Palestine forces, during which time a Zionist force's supply ship to Palestine was named the 'S.S. Ben Hecht'. Autobiography of author/screenwriter Ben Hecht Many personal, rare photographs. 654 pp. Clean sharp tight no extraneous marks. First softcover edition, 1st printing. The Original autobiography was published in 1954 to great critical acclaim. Hecht offers philosophical meditations on the nature of God and the self as well as keen, firsthand portraits of big-city newsrooms, postwar Germany, 1920s New York intellectuals and artists, and golden-age Hollywood. He shares anecdotes from his days working with Hollywood legends such as the Marx brothers, authors Sherwood Anderson and Dorothy Parker, actress Fanny Brice, and producer David O. Selznick. Artikel-Nr. 42988

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