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A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
ISBN: 9780226322797
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Edition: Reprinted edition
In 1921, Ben Hecht wrote a column for the Chicago Daily News which his editor called "journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature." Hecht's collection of sixty-four of these pieces, illustrated with striking pen drawings by Herman Rosse, is a timeless caricature of urban American life in 1921.
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In 1921, Ben Hecht wrote a column for the Chicago Daily News which his editor called "journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature." Hecht's collection of sixty-four of these pieces, illustrated with striking pen drawings by Herman Rosse, is a timeless caricature of urban American life in 1921.
