Ben Hecht Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

"Adina Hoffman's superb ook . . . loads Hecht's staggering contradictions into a compact but abounding two hundred twenty pages. . . . She writes with enormous flair."-David Denby, New Yorker
"To boil down such a profuse, not to say verbose, career, into so compact a volume was a challenge, but [Hoffman] has achieved much more than elegant concision. . . . She makes contact with a living personality, creating a portrait both sympathetic and clear-eyed."-Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books
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