02264nam 22004695 450 991079394350332120200424112023.00-300-25368-010.12987/9780300253689(CKB)4100000010160639(MiAaPQ)EBC6034428(DE-B1597)546448(DE-B1597)9780300253689(OCoLC)1139710449(EXLCZ)99410000001016063920200424h20202020 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Child of the Century /Ben HechtNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]©20201 online resource (xx, 654 pages)Originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1954. Introduction copyright ©2020.Includes index.0-300-25179-3 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Book One. WHO AM I? -- Book Two. THE CALIPHATE -- Book Three. CHICAGO -- Book Four. I WAS A REPORTER -- Book Five. ARTIST, FRIEND, AND MONEYMAKER -- Book Six. THE COMMITTEE -- IndexBen 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 after. “His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting.”—Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time’s list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it “the un-put-downable testament of the era’s great multimedia entertainer.”Authors, American20th centuryBiographyUnited StatesCivilization20th centuryAuthors, American928.1Hecht Ben, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut439000Denby David1577251DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910793943503321A Child of the Century3855700UNINA