Erik Dorn

Erik Dorn PDF Author: Ben Hecht
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Erik Dorn" by Ben Hecht. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Erik Dorn

Erik Dorn PDF Author: Ben Hecht
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Erik Dorn" by Ben Hecht. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Erik Dorn

Erik Dorn PDF Author: Hecht, Ben
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 430

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The New Republic

The New Republic PDF Author:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Erik Dorn

Erik Dorn PDF Author: Ben Hecht
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519132574
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Languages : en
Pages : 190

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"Gargoyles" delves deep into the psyches of individuals and of their relationships within social classes, revealing both the darker sides and the sentimental sides. Sometimes the characteristics, values and ethics of his characters are altered over time, as they (sometimes unwittingly) look within themselves and acknowledge what they valued most, how their egos affect their decisions and ethics, yet not always understanding the reasons those values are so crucial to them. What we learn is the results of these changes, as we center on the lives of George Basine, his friends, and his family, and most importantly, the masks that each wore.

The Notorious Ben Hecht

The Notorious Ben Hecht PDF Author: Julien Gorbach
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612495958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Biography. 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 with what he called “the soul of man” gave him a kind of uncanny foresight a decade later, when a loose cannon named Adolf Hitler began to rise to power in central Europe. In 1932, Hecht solidified his legend as "the Shakespeare of Hollywood" with his thriller Scarface, the Howard Hughes epic considered the gangster movie to end all gangster movies. But Hecht rebelled against his Jewish bosses at the movie studios when they refused to make films about the Nazi menace. Leveraging his talents and celebrity connections to orchestrate a spectacular one-man publicity campaign, he mobilized pressure on the Roosevelt administration for an Allied plan to rescue Europe’s Jews. Then after the war, Hecht became notorious, embracing the labels “gangster” and “terrorist” in partnering with the mobster Mickey Cohen to smuggle weapons to Palestine in the fight for a Jewish state. The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist is a biography of a great twentieth-century writer that treats his activism during the 1940s as the central drama of his life. It details the story of how Hecht earned admiration as a humanitarian and vilification as an extremist at this pivotal moment in history, about the origins of his beliefs in his varied experiences in American media, and about the consequences. Who else but Hecht could have drawn the admiration of Ezra Pound, clowned around with Harpo Marx, written Notorious and Spellbound with Alfred Hitchcock, launched Marlon Brando’s career, ghosted Marilyn Monroe’s memoirs, hosted Jack Kerouac and Salvador Dalí on his television talk show, and plotted revolt with Menachem Begin? Any lover of modern history who follows this journey through the worlds of gangsters, reporters, Jazz Age artists, Hollywood stars, movie moguls, political radicals, and guerrilla fighters will never look at the twentieth century in the same way again.

Midwest Portraits

Midwest Portraits PDF Author: Harry Hansen
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier

The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier PDF Author: Harry Hansen
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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The Freeman

The Freeman PDF Author:
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Category : Little magazines
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2116

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The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 966

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