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What Makes Sammy Run?
Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our times—from 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 characteristic—his 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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Now this is a classic.......2007-03-22
Most "classics" have a bad reputation. They are praised to high heaven in textbooks and literary publications...and force-fed to students in literature classes. But this book is as fresh, hilarious and biting as if it were written this season. It moves at a brisk pace and holds you to the end. What a REAL classic should be.
What Makes Sammy Run.......2007-01-18
This book is a real experience. Even though it was written decades ago, it is timeless because its characters are timeless. Everybody has known a "Sammy" in his lifetime. A real beautifully written classic.
Reading about this louse is not such great fun .......2005-06-23
The book's title is a ' concept'. It is the concept of the heartless louse who steps on any and everyone to get what they want.
It is possible to think that reading about such a louse would be great fun.
I found it quite disheartening and monotonous. Once I got the idea it all seemed to be simply that.
Reading about this particular louse was not such great fun.
I do not like cruelty and rudeness- and this work is pervaded by it.
Classic Hollywood Novel.......2004-10-22
I highly recommend "What Makes Sammy Run" for anyone who is an aspiring actor or filmmaker. This novel is an interesting look at the early entertainment business. Reading about Sammy Glick as he pursues success in show business is a real eye-opener. And things have not changed all that much these days. The movers and the shakers in the biz still behave in a similar manner. This is an interesting book to learn about what really makes the Entertainment Industry tick. Even though this novel takes place in the 1930s, it is still a great learning tool for today. And it is also a great look into history. This book is a great Hollywood classic.
Highly dissapointed.......2002-03-23
I was extremely dissapointed in this book. Perhaps its age shows, but by the last thirty years' standards, Sammy Glick would be a choir boy today in Hollywood. The writing style and technique are excellent, but the story is, at best, weak. Today, Sammy Glick would get run over, instead of running. There are no sympathetic characters in this book, and as for an insiders view of Hollywood, it just isn't there. Again, maybe it's a time frame problem, but if you are looking for any clue about today's Hollywood, this ain't it. Boring. And the Reagan bashing at the end is laughable, especially from someone writing from Quoge.
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- A an exciting book detailing boxing history.
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Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game
Budd Schulberg
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The best of Mr. Schulberg's reporting on the sweet science, from Benny Leonard to Muhammad Ali to George Foreman, including reflections on the social history of the fight game, the mystique of the heavyweight championship, the seamy side of the business, and his own sparring match with Papa. A crowd-pleaser all the way. --Chicago Tribune. Belongs on the same shelf with the real heavyweights--A. J. Liebling, W. C. Heinz, and Hugh McIlvanney. --Allen Barra, New York Times Book Review
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A an exciting book detailing boxing history........1998-09-14
This collection of boxing articles weaved together by the author is an exciting and detailed account of the some of the most famous boxing matches of the century. Mr. Schulberg writes with such exuberance and shows his deep passion for the art of fisticuffs. His ringside perspective allows the reader a first-hand view of the boxing world. He takes us to Zaire for Ali and Foreman, a historic boxing event which he portrays so vividly. Anybody at all interested in this incredible sport should pick up this book and experience the amazing ability of the author to incorporate his perspective of these historic battles into wonderful articles. One of our greatest novelist's this century has ever seen delights the boxing world with this book. Boxing fans, it's a must read.
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- The Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge
- The Battle of Gettysburg
- If you have the slightest interest in the Civil War, don't fail to read the late Michael Shaara's book "The Killer Angels"
- Glorifies Battle, but Does So Compellingly. . .
- excellent book, even if you are not a buff
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
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This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine regiment of volunteers held the Union's left flank on the second day of the battle. This unit's bravery at Little Round Top helped turned the tide of the war against the rebels. There are also plenty of maps, which convey a complete sense of what happened July 1-3, 1863. Reading about the past is rarely so much fun as on these pages.
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"MY FAVORITE HISTORICAL NOVEL . . . A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant."
--James M. McPherson, Author of Battle Cry of Freedom
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life.
Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty were also the casualties of war.
The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable--a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America's destiny.
"REMARKABLE. . . A BOOK THAT CHANGED MY LIFE . . . I had never visited Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book, but here it all came alive."
--Ken Burns, Filmmaker, The Civil War
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The Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge.......2007-10-13
Sometimes, I work backwards. In this instance, I, once again, saw the movie before reading the book. As pleased as I was with the film adaptation, director Ronald Maxwell's "Gettysburg," I was doubly impressed with the source novel "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara.
This was easily the finest piece of historical fiction that I have ever read. The author really did his homework. Many of the military commands and speeches contained in the book are supported by the historical record.
The novel is so clearly written that the motion picture screenplay adaptation simply repeated large portions of the book verbatim. That in itself is a rare accomplishment since Hollywood typically eviscerates good books when scripts are being adapted.
The details of the three day battle at Gettysburg are accurately portrayed and readers can gain valuable insights into the character of the principals, Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Armistead, Hancock, Buford, Chamberlain and so many others. Shaara also provides one with an understanding of how armies take the field, march great distances, struggle to secure control of favorable terrain, scout enemy movements and try to decipher ambiguous data before committing to battle.
This is truly an outstanding book which richly deserves all of the praise that it has received. I read this book more than a decade and a half ago and I have not forgotten it.
The Battle of Gettysburg.......2007-10-12
Michael Shaara's modern classic "The Killer Angels" is about the famous Civil War battle at Gettysburg. It is the most important battle of the war because it is generally acknowledged as the turning point in the war for the Union. The book is told through Confederate Generals Longstreet and Lee, and Union soldier Colonel Joshua Chamberlain. This novel is the tragic three days struggle between thousands of Americans not over the question of right to succeed or even slavery, but (if General Lee is to be believed) who's side God was on. It is telling that by the third year it is just a contest to win, not really about causes anymore.
The characters are well presented. Lee is the old guard; a gentlemen who is willing to fight (and maybe die) for honor, his own, his state's (Virginia) and egotistically, for honor's sake, which leads to bad decisions on his part. Longstreet is presented as a man ahead of his time, a man who favors defensive strategy that may have worked better than Lee's straight ahead offense. Longstreet would have appreciated World War One's methods of trench fighting. History dose bare him out as trenches were used later in the war. Lee and Longstreet's continuous argument over strategy fuels most of the novel's moral center. And finally Colonel Chamberlain is the model citizen turned soldier. He is really the character most easily identifiable by the common reader. He is us basically, whose eyes the prism of action is passed through and explained by.
The action is intense. The bravery and danger of the wild Battle of Little Round Top is immediate and exciting, the best part of the novel. And by contrast there is the depressing and fatal Pickett's Charge, the straw that broke the Confederate Army for the war. It is so heart wrenching that, though well written, is still hard to read because of the futility of it.
While this is a work of fiction, many historians use Shaara's book as a guide to the Gettysburg battle and it is of interest to anyone who likes war-adventure novels, deep characters, and well researched histories.
If you have the slightest interest in the Civil War, don't fail to read the late Michael Shaara's book "The Killer Angels".......2007-10-04
If you have the slightest interest in the Civil War, don't fail to read the late Michael Shaara's book "The Killer Angels". It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1974.
For some reason this book had never crossed my path. It wasn't until Father's Day this year that I was even aware of its existence. My 27 year old son gave me a DVD that had both Gods and Generals and Gettysburg on it. In reading the jacket of the DVD I saw the movie was based on this book. After watching the movie, I headed off to the library. I was not disappointed.
This volume shows both the courage and determination of the Union and Confederate soldiers. It examines the story from both viewpoints. You are told the story through the key leadership of the battle. You will read about Robert E. Lee. You will learn what his decisions were based on. You will see why he was so beloved by his army. The book allows you to be present as Lee struggles with decision after decision from his headquarters. You can feel the frustration of Longstreet as he tries to convince Lee that defense is a better choice. You will get a picture of the flamboyant Pickett. You will feel Lee's and Longstreet's frustration with J.E.B. Stuart. I met a new hero in the book - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin as I read about the 20th Maine Regiment and Chamberlain who with a bayonet charge on Little Big Top held the end of the Union line. Another new hero I encountered was General John Buford. You will experience his anguish as he decides to engage Rebel forces. He knows that he was seriously outnumbered. He is determined to save the only high ground in the area.
I was emotionally involved in the book from the beginning to the end. This is the book that blurs the line between historical fiction and creative non-fiction. It is simply great reading. While the movie was good, the book is great. Michael Shaara had the vision, did the research, and wrote one of the best books ever. Thank you!
Glorifies Battle, but Does So Compellingly. . . .......2007-10-01
I am not a civil war buff, but I enjoy historical fiction, and I decided to read this book for its Pulitzer Prize and what it might teach me about the Battle of Gettysburg. On these fronts it delivered as advertised. Although the book is about 90% brooding and waiting for battle and only 10% battle, the writing is compelling enough to hold one's interest through the brooding and to teach me more than I ever knew about the strategies, generals, turning points, blunders and significance of Gettysburg --- or at least the author's views on these points.
Nonetheless, I found myself consistently detatched from the characters and the action. The story is told exclusively from the perspective of the officers in the battle and, for the most part, from that of the southern officers. This is not to say it has a southern bias; indeed blame is placed on Southern hero Lee and the book elevates Southern "scoundrel" Longstreet. It is just that, ultimately, I was not capable of sympathy or admiration for their bravery, honor and nobility, in which the book invests heavily. My own views about slavery and the south are just too strong. Its like reading about the qualms and struggles of German aristocrats in the Nazi army. Interesting, but they are so fundamentally on the wrong side that neither admirable traits nor understanding of their perspective can produce empathy, redemption or even forgiveness. And, as to the horrors of war and soldiering, the gritty, more soldier oriented view of, say, a Cold Mountain, remained foremost in my mind.
excellent book, even if you are not a buff.......2007-08-12
I remember seeing the movie "Gettysburg" when it first opened
in the early nineties. It magnificently brought to life the "glory"
and tragedy of thousands of men in a napoleonic charge. The
book matches the movie in that respect, but it also provides
insights into the motives of several of the main participants in
a way that a movie cannot (mostly generals Lee and Longstreet
on one side and Colonel Chamberlain on the other). My understanding
is that the book is as true to history as a novelization can be.
However, it is also extremely readable - I wish somebody pointed
me to it when I was reading about the civil war in highschool.
I am looking forward to reading Jeff Shaara's two books that
complete the trilogy.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper stories that shook the nation-collected for the first time since their original publication in 1948.
Until the mid-twentieth century, organized crime ruled New York's waterfront. With the threat of communism in the air, the inhumane treatment of longshoremen implicitly condoned by the unions, and the suspicious disappearance of anyone who spoke out against the system, it seemed things would never change. Then Malcolm Johnson's groundbreaking series "Crime on the Water Front" appeared in The New York Sun, revealing a violent underworld that influenced all levels of New York politics, society, and industry. Johnson's extensive investigation finally forced the public and the government to take action, leading to changes in labor laws that influenced the entire nation. Now, collected for the first time in book form, these Pulitzer Prize-winning articles tell a riveting story of mobsters, murder, faith, and the ultimate victory of fair play and American values. Included is a foreword by Malcolm Johnson's son, Haynes Johnson, also a Pulitzer Prize winner, who discusses the tremendous impact the series had upon his family, and an introduction and additional reporting by Budd Schulberg, author of the Academy Award-winning screenplay On the Waterfront.
Introduction and additional articles by Budd Schulberg.
Foreword by Haynes Johnson
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The Classic 'On The Waterfront' Account........2005-08-31
This book contains the twenty-six front page articles of Malcolm Johnson printed in 'The New York Sun' in 1947 and '48. Budd Schulberg wrote the introduction and added some articles of his own. He had previously written THE DISENCHANTED.
Mainly, though, it is almost totally Malcolm Johnson, a reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for these articles which shook the United States as he exposed organized crime on the New York waterfront. This was the basis of the movie 'On The Watrefront' starring Marlon Brando. This exposure led to the Tennessee Senator Kefauver hearings and changed labor laws which influenced America. D. A. Thomas Dewey led the charge and Budd Schulberg followed through by producing the award-winning movie directed by Elia Kazan. It won five Oscars including best picture, best director and best actor. It is one of the Top Ten films of the century.
The articles and resulting movie reveals to the world how organized crime had infiltrated the New York Harbor, the world's busiest port. The '40s photo looking down on New York City shows hundreds of piers at the height of the waterfront's extent and power. The interconnnected piers were the richest in the world.
This book shows America and New York at the pivotal time when shipping ruled the world. Back then, "money was more important than life itself." It still is sometimes and some places. Corruption and violence on the waterfront were commonplace, as they were on the street of New York ('The West Side Story'). Pictures are interspersed throughout the book; one of them is of the Hudson River, showing the West Side piers at their peak in the '30s.
Haynes Johnson also won a Pulitzer Prize for his journalism. He wrote THE BEST OF TIMES: AMERICA IN THE CLINTON YEARS, which I already reviewed.
Handsomely Reproduced Time Capsule.......2005-08-12
Reading this book is like stepping into another era, and the shocks are everywhere. First of all, the material is from an olf time New York daily newspaper, the SUN, a paper long vanished into the annals of journalism. Thank goodness someone kept some old copies of this scandal-making series of articles by SUN reporter Malcolm Johnson, many of which took up the first page of the old SUN, and filled the paper with an expose on union activities along the piers and docks of old New York. Johnson's son, nonfiction specialist Haynes Johnson, contributes context for his father's Pulitzer-Prize winning scoop.
Budd Schulberg, who read these articles and worked with Elia Kazan on the screenplay of the film, pays tribute to Malcolm Johnson like one craftsman to another. But he's no dummy, Schulberg. The first thing you realize when reading these articles is what a great job Schulberg did bringing life to what is essentially a pretty dry tale of graft, without any real heroes or plot. In presenting this old journalism, Schulberg insures that we appreciate his artistry. There aren't any Terry Malloys in the pages of the SUN, and there are definitely no Eva Marie Saints looking on wistfully.
What you'll take away from what was once the expose of the decade is now merely a case of mutatis mutandis. I'm sure things along the docks have not changed an iota. Prices have, though! Johnson presented as a shocker the annual salary of the corrupt union head--$20,000! That wouldn't get you very far in today's New York. You might be able to buy a life buoy but I doubt it. And yet to his readers, that salary must have repesented the equivalent of a million bucks today, and been instantly a suspicious red flag as though to scream out in 24 pt type, RYAN'S A CROOK.
And what a prescient picture of the Mafia! It was an organization only dimly visible through the underground fog, yet one that extended its tentacles into every arena of modern urban life. Johnson must have been one of the first reporters to dig into it with any depth or understanding. It's a surprise he lived! I would have thought after three or four days of this serial, the boys would have put his shoes into concrete and sunk him under the pier. Instead he lived for another 30 years, with the Pulitzer on his mantel and a grin across his face.
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Lavish Praise for Food from My Heart "There's as much for the serious reader in Zarela Martínez's book Food From My Heart as for the serious cook. Martínez's memoirs of growing up in Mexico…make great armchair reading…" —Los Angeles Times "Restaurateur Zarela Martínez does double duty in Food From My Heart, writing brilliantly about people and culture while demonstrating how to make quite fabulous dishes." —Cosmopolitan "Zarela Martínez is an absolute genius with flavors and this book is a great guide to her talent. I count it as one of the most interesting and invaluable additions to my library, which dates almost forty years." —Craig Claiborne Food and life are inseparable in Mexico—not just eating to live but eating to celebrate, to come together, to worship God and spirit. In Food From My Heart, Zarela Martínez describes the connection between Mexican culture and Mexican food—a collision of Old and New World ingredients, and the culinary influences of a constantly shifting ethnic mosaic. Through the telling of her own story, Martínez reveals the inextricable bond that exists between food and religion and the way Mexicans mark birth, death, marriage, and the daily business of living. Drawing upon the influences of friends, family, and traditional foods from many regions in Mexico, Martínez has created her own personal style of cooking: imaginative and highly flavorful, easy to prepare, and evocative of the classic Mexican cooking upon which it is based. It is all brought together—the traditional and the new—in the form of memoir, stories, and more than 175 recipes to create this unique cookbook.
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food with history.......2002-06-03
This wonderful cookbook is part history book ( of Zarela Martinez' family and experiences in Mexico) as well as being a great book full of wonderful recipes. These recipes are "authenically Mexican" as opposed to being an Americanized version of Mexican food (which is what you are liable to find here in America.) Her subsequent books on Oaxaca and Veracruz are also worth checking out.
The most-often used book in my kitchen.......2001-11-09
I purchased this book after having checked it out of the library and finding I could not let it go -- paid a heavy fine to the library, too! This book is now the most often used in my kitchen. I love to read the author's childhood memories and the background she sets up for the recipes. The recipes are not too complicated, and I have not tried one that has not been a winner! I understand it is now out of print, but I would highly recommend it to anyone who can aquire it!
I borrowed this book from the library/ and need to own it.......1999-09-21
I borrowed the book to learn more about tamales/ but found myself actually reading the book. Excellent. I now want to own it.
Heartwarming! Authentic and Delicious!.......1999-08-27
If you love Mexico, it's cuisine, and it's traditions, you will love this book. The recipes are all superb and Zarela's warmth and love of her family, culture, and food, take center stage. This book captured my heart and took me on a nostalgic journey through the foods and holidays of my childhood! It is a pleasure to recommend this book.
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earns its title...........2000-06-02
....a gem of useful, compact, condensed, and well-written information on the art of writing clearly. Interesting, lively, informative, a must-have for the writer.
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Mr. Schulberg was raised in the Hollywood of the 1920s as the privileged son of a pioneer studio mogul. As a book on the early days of the movies in Hollywood--their triumphs and fiascos, their scoundrels and heroes--his candid memoir is hard to beat. A fascinating and significant contribution to American social history. --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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He Couldn't Go Wrong.......2007-02-10
"Follow your Dad!" Adolphe Menjou, well-known movie star of the 1930s and 40s instructed young Budd Schulberg, as he gave the boy his autograph. And it wasn't a bad idea: Dad was B.P. Schulberg, $11,000 a week -- way back then -- head of Paramount, Hollywood's second biggest dream factory. The kid's Dad was Menjou's boss. Dad was, in fact, the boss of Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and a cast of thousands. But young Budd already knew his destiny lay elsewhere: he was going to write. And write he did: "What Makes Sammy Run?" and "The Harder They Fall" are only two of the titles on his crowded shelves. "Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince," Schulberg's account of his earliest years, joined them years ago.
Successful, powerful, sensitive, intelligent father: determined-to-succeed, sensitive, intelligent son. Father began his career as a writer; son was bound to write. It's got to be a tale of some conflict and drama, even if you ignore eminent psychiatrist Sigmund Freud's famous Oedipal theory: son must, at least psychologically, kill father if he's to succeed. And who would dare ignore Freud, when Mom, Ad Schulberg, third point of the Oedipal triangle, was one of that psychiatrist's earliest, most powerful, and most insistent popularizers?
So Schulberg has a good story to tell. And he has some of the world's most glamorous stars, a cast of thousands, the notoriously nasty doings of Hollywood's early tycoons with which to flesh out the oldest story of father/son/love/hate. He sometimes goes on a little too long, but how could he go wrong?
A 'must' for any film buff.......2003-09-11
The author was raised in the 1920s as the privileged son of a pioneer studio mogul in Hollywood but earned fame in his own right as a distinguished novelist and playwright. His autobiography is not only about his life and achievements: it traces changes he's observed in the Hollywood industry over the decades, comments on characters and ironies beyond the Hollywood stage, and includes plenty of rare photos to top off his presentation. A 'must' for any film buff.
"Hollywood" by Budd Schulberg.......2000-07-12
In addition to being an accomplished novelist (What Makes Sammy Run), Schulberg is the son of the Late B.P. Schulberg who was head of production of Paramount Pictures in its early days. This book is his reminiscence about the silent and early sound days of Hollywood, by someone who was there, hobnobbing with people at the top. It's a fascinating insider account, made all the better by the excellence of Schulberg's writing. If you like books about the early days of Hollywood, don't miss this one.
Don't Stop Now!.......2000-03-29
To gain a true feeling of what it was like to be in on the ground floor of the motion picture industry, you must read this book. Mr. Schulberg, a gifted writer, is the son of B.P., who was with such notables as Adolph Zukor and L.B. Mayer as they created the dream factories. As the reader, you are given access to the back lots and inner sanctums of Paramount and MGM as Budd and his friend Maurice Rapf (Harry's son) play on the sets on the backlot, and you are also priviliged to join Budd's family at the dinner table for a more personal view. This book is excellent reading for the serious film student/buff as well as an entertaining read for anyone, since Mr. Schulberg uses a light narrative style and has a well developed sense of humor. The only complaint I can offer is that the book ends when Mr. Schulberg is around 20, and his own best work is yet to come! The reader is so involved that it is jolting to come back to this time. A 'must have'.
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In this bountiful collection of his best boxing stories of the last half-century, Budd Schulberg takes his fans all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England two hundred years ago; draws a revealing portrait of Uncle Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its Golden Age; expertly places Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali in the social history of their times; brings fans up to date in the careers of the great names of recent decades Tyson, Holyfield, De La Hoya, Hopkins, Chico Corrales; and much more.
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A T.K.O. .......2006-10-27
Budd Schulberg at ninety is still punching. In this collection of his boxing writing he brings us back to some of the most exciting moments in his long ring history. He concludes with a lengthy portrait of the famed boxing promoter Lew Jacobs.
Schulberg is a real aficionado of the sport who knows it from inside. And those who love the sport will greatly enjoy the collection. Most touching in it is his concern for what happens to fighters after they leave the ring.
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The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
The Player
