LEADER 02264nam 22004695 450 001 9910816805203321 005 20200424112023.0 010 $a0-300-25368-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300253689 035 $a(CKB)4100000010160639 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6034428 035 $a(DE-B1597)546448 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300253689 035 $a(OCoLC)1139710449 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010160639 100 $a20200424h20202020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Child of the Century /$fBen Hecht 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 654 pages) 300 $aOriginally published by Simon and Schuster in 1954. Introduction copyright ©2020. 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-25179-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tBook One. WHO AM I? -- $tBook Two. THE CALIPHATE -- $tBook Three. CHICAGO -- $tBook Four. I WAS A REPORTER -- $tBook Five. ARTIST, FRIEND, AND MONEYMAKER -- $tBook Six. THE COMMITTEE -- $tIndex 330 $aBen 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.? 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y20th century 615 0$aAuthors, American 676 $a928.1 700 $aHecht$b Ben, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0439000 701 $aDenby$b David$01667306 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816805203321 996 $aA Child of the Century$94027044 997 $aUNINA