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"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"A screenwriter hoping to serve up a punchy opening scene could hardly do better than the first paragraph of Adina Hoffman's new biography of Ben Hecht . . . The opening credits have barely rolled (so to speak) and we already know that the book is a very unusual sort of Hollywood biography, one about a man who sought a role on the world stage that extended far beyond having written 'Scarface.' The story that Hoffman proceeds to tell—her account of what she vividly describes as Hecht's 'long, slaphappy career'—is little known today, a fact that would have surprised plenty of people when he died in 1964 . . . Sorting through [his] contradictions is . . . the task she sets for herself . . . It's a big job for such a slender book, but Hoffman . . . has the grip--the historical, cultural and human frame of reference--required to see Hecht whole."—Jeremy McCarter, Wall Street Journal"Engrossing. . . Hecht . . .is due a revival, and this short, striking biography could provide it. Like him, it’s playful, punchy and moves at a real clip."—Ed Potton, The Times“Lively, well-researched . . . A clear-eyed portrait of an impetuous and multi-talented man.”—Kirkus Reviews"[A] precise and lively portrait . . . Each phase in Hecht's adventures is electrifying . . . Hoffman's concentrated biography is smartly entertaining and revelatory."—Booklist, starred review"In the latest entry in Yale's excellent 'Jewish Lives' series . . . Hoffman beautifully illuminates the life and work of the protean 20th-century American literary genius Ben Hecht. . . . Assiduously researched and delightfully entertaining."—Library Journal"Adina Hoffman’s richly informative new biography is part of the Yale University Press’s acclaimed Jewish Lives series . . . . A fine introduction to a seminal figure in American Jewish culture and Hollywood’s first century."—Glenn Frankel, Moment “Hecht’s life was extraordinary, his writing is (mostly) a tonic, his films are (in the main) dazzling, and Hoffman has brilliantly caught his restless, contradictory quality in crystalline prose. Her analysis of his Jewishness is nothing short of a revelation.”—Simon Callow, The Sunday Times"Hoffman’s superb Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures, part of Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series of biographical portraits, accomplishes a great deal in a relatively compact form. It’s terrific on . . . Hecht’s prodigious output. . . . It’s also sharp on Hecht’s lesser-known political and religious impulses and activities, as he agitated and raised money throughout most of the 1940s on behalf of Jewish statehood."—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune“Thoroughly absorbing, compulsively readable, Adina Hoffman’s book gives a critical but sympathetic account of the pugnacious, brilliant Ben Hecht. A highly gifted storyteller, Hoffman shows just how important Hecht was in his day, and why he matters now.”—Noah Isenberg, author of We'll Always Have Casablanca“Ben Hecht and the American movie business grew up together, trading punches. Adina Hoffman captures this often destructive force of nature in all his cynicism and fervor, and is especially incisive dealing with his long struggle to find a Jewish identity that could fit his cantankerous personality. This book makes you wish you'd known the guy, if only to watch the sparks he threw off.”—John Sayles

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About the Author

Adina Hoffman is an award-winning essayist and biographer. The author of four books, including Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, she lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.

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Product details

Series: Jewish Lives

Hardcover: 264 pages

Publisher: Yale University Press (February 12, 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 030018042X

ISBN-13: 978-0300180428

Product Dimensions:

5.8 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.6 out of 5 stars

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Different people, different reactions and opinions. I was eager to learn more about Hecht and his writing, but I just couldn't get through this. It reads like a gossip column and just seemed like unthinking hagiography, more than I wanted to know about him as a person, much less than I wanted to know about his plays, scripts and so on.

Adina Hoffman has written an important biography the great screen writer Ben Hecht. She takes his life from the Lower Eastside of the 1890s, to Racine, Wisconsin, and then on to the newspaper world of Chicago, to Broadway and then on to Hollywood. In the 1930s Hecht became the highest paid screen writer in Hollywood turning out such classics as Scarface, Viva Villa, Gunga Din, Twentieth Century, Monkey Business and Wuthering Heights. He would also rewrite without credit Gone with the Wind, The Shop around the Corner, Mutiny on the Bounty and much later Casino Royal. Quite the career.While in Chicago he would meet Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandberg and Theodore Dreiser all of whom would later become literary giants. It was his experience in Chicago newsrooms that inspired his Broadway hit, Front Page. Also as a reporter he covered postwar Berlin in 1919.Hecht received perhaps the most famous telegram in all of Hollywood history. In late 1926 while in New York he received a telegram from his friend Herman Mankiewicz stating, “Will you accept three hundred per week to work for Paramount Pictures. All expenses paid. ……..”And as they say, the rest is history.Perhaps most interesting to me is how Hecht rediscovers his Jewishness in 1939-40 with the onset of World War II and the growing horror facing European Jewry. He meets up with Peter Bergson who was the Irgun’s (Jewish liberation group) man in the United States and starts raising dollars to rescue the Jews of Europe. In 1943 he puts on an extravaganza in Madison Square Garden highlighting the plight of European Jewry titled “We Will Never Die.” He is assisted in the work with such show business legends as Billie Rose, Moss Hart and Ernst Lubitsch. The show would go national. Along the way he battles the then Jewish establishment figures who were reluctant to highlight the seriousness of the disaster.Later in 1946 he works with Bergson to put on a Broadway show entitled “A Flag is Born” to call attention to the struggle to create the Jewish state. Again he uses is influence to raise money for the cause. He was so important that future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin would attend his funeral.I would have really liked to know Ben Hecht. He was vibrant and full of energy and Adina Hoffman tells his story well.

I had no idea, frankly, who Ben Hecht was, and not much interest, but by the end of the book this incredibly witty and fluent screenwriter seemed a great psychological subject, an important cultural signifier, an ESSENTIAL subject. Hoffman's writing about film is especially dazzling. Really a magisterial and at the same time delightful book, providing intimate access to Hollywood under the studio system.

Seriously researched, well written. Yes, it is more about Hecht's Jewish and pro Israel activities then his writing analyses? But because it was written for special Yale's series "Jewish lives".I would like to make small but significant correction. On page 164 said: "And in the wake of a gathering of Allied leaders in Moscow that fall..." In fact that important conference about future of Europe happened to be in Yalta at Crimea (USSR) in February 1945. It can be easily changed in second printing or in paper back edition.

I've seen a lot of the films Ben Hecht was involved in, but I never knew much about him. Hoffman's biography blew me away. I picked it up and couldn't put it down. The topics she covers--gangster films, Chicago Jews, Israel, high modernism, and more--were part of Hecht's world. Every chapter is a self-contained continent of that world. How Hoffman manages to compact so much into such a short book, I don't know, but it sizzles and crackles with energy and insight on every page.

Too much on his politics and novels (mixed success at best) and too little on his role as screenwriter (arguably the greatest of the 20th century), albeit well written. Why do biographers have such a hard time figuring out what is important and interesting about their subjects?

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