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Budd Schulberg
What Makes Sammy Run?
What Makes Sammy Run?
Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our timesfrom the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go-getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world. And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that makes these people tick. What makes them run?
This is the question Schulberg has asked himself, and the answer is the first novel written with the indignation that only a young writer with talent and ideals could concentrate into a manuscript. It is the story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristichis congenital incapacity for friendship.
An older and more experienced novelist might have tempered his story and, in so doing, destroyed one of its outstanding qualities. Compromise would mar the portrait of Sammy Glick. Schulberg has etched it in pure vitriol, and dissected his victim with a precision that is almost frightening.
When a fragment of this book appeared as a short story in a national magazine, Schulberg was surprised at the number of letters he received from people convinced they knew Sammy Glick's real name. But speculation as to his real identity would be utterly fruitless, for Sammy is a composite picture of a loud and spectacular minority bitterly resented by the many decent and sincere artists who are trying honestly to realize the measureless potentialities of motion pictures. To this group belongs Schulberg himself, who has not only worked as a screen writer since his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1936, but has spent his life, literally, in the heart of the motion-picture colony. In the course of finding out what makes Sammy run (an operation in which the reader is spared none of the grue-some details) Schulberg has poured out everything he has felt about that place. The result is a book which the publishers not only believe to be the most honest ever written about Hollywood, but a penetrating study of one kind of twentieth-century success that is peculiar to no single race of people or walk of life.
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Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut
Budd Schulberg Bio
Budd Schulberg Screenwriter/Short Story Author: March 27, 1914 - New York City, NY
Budd Schulberg, the son of producer/publicist B.P. Schulberg, created a major uproar in 1941 Hollywood when he published his scathing, satirical exposé of the film industry, What Makes Sammy Run? Schulberg was 17 when Paramount hired him as a publicist; he became a screenwriter at age 19. In 1939, Paramount fired him after the film Winter Carnival, which Schulberg co-penned with a rapidly fading F. Scott Fitzgerald, bombed at the box office. Following the scandal of his book, Schulberg spent the war years working within John Ford's documentary unit. A decade later, when the country was caught up in the Cold War, Schulberg willingly testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and provided them with many names. He later recounted his experience in his screenplay for Pulitzer Prize winning play On the Waterfront (1954).
All Easton Press books are made in America by skilled craftspeople. Known for their incredible beauty and durability, these books are bound in premium, hand-selected leather and have decorative accents stamped of 22kt. gold. Archival-quality paper is used, which protects the pages from humidity and dryness. Easton Press books also feature hubbed spines, silk moire endpapers, and satin ribbon page markers.
Signed by author on special signature page. Book features full-leather binding, silk ribbon page marker, silk endpapers, and all edges gilt.
Condition: Book is in fine condition. Includes certificate of authenticity and a note from Easton Press about the book.
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