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In the latest entry in Yale's excellent "Jewish Lives" series, noted essayist, film critic, professor, and award-winning author Hoffman (Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City) beautifully illuminates the life and work of the protean 20th-century American literary genius Ben Hecht. A newspaperman, playwright, director, producer, staunch Zionist, and advocate of Jewish causes, Hecht is best known as one of Hollywood's most successful a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More