1001 Afternoons In Chicago / The Iron Heel by Jack London, Ben Hecht (Book) in Literature & Fiction

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The Iron Heel is Jack London’s dystopian novel about the overthrow of a tyrannical government. Written in 1908, it influenced Orwell’s classic work 1984.
In 1921, Ben Hecht wrote a column for the Chicago Daily News that his editor called “journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature.” Hecht’s collection of sixty-four of these pieces is a timeless caricature of urban American life in the jazz age. From the glittering opulence of Michigan Avenue to the darkest ruminations of an escaped convict, from captains of industry to immigrant day laborers, Hecht captures 1920s Chicago in all its furor, intensity, and absurdity.

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