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  • What Makes Sammy Run?

    Budd Schulberg

    Paperback (Bantam Books, March 15, 1945)
    Vintage paperback reprint. Classic Hollywood novel.
  • What Makes Sammy Run?

    Budd Schulberg

    Paperback (Penguin Books, May 25, 1978)
    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.
  • What Makes Sammy Run?

    Budd Schulberg

    Mass Market Paperback (Bantam Books, March 15, 1957)
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  • What Makes Sammy Run

    Budd Schulberg

    Hardcover (Easton Press, March 15, 1999)
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  • What Makes Sammy run?

    Budd Schulberg

    Paperback (FAWCETT GOLD MEDAL, March 15, 1970)
    247 pages - From the gutters of New York to the best bedrooms in Hollywood, they wanted to know What Makes Sammy Run? - This book contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition.
  • What Makes Sammy Run?

    Budd Schulberg

    Mass Market Paperback (Bantam Books, March 15, 1946)
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  • What Makes Sammy Run?WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN? by Schulberg, Budd

    Budd Schulberg

    Paperback (Allison & Busby, June 18, 1992)
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  • What Makes Sammy Run?

    Budd Schulberg

    Paperback (Corgi Books, March 15, 1967)
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  • What Makes Sammy Run?

    Budd Schulberg

    Hardcover (Bentley Pub, June 1, 1979)
    Book by Schulberg, Budd
  • What Makes Sammy Run

    Budd Schulberg

    Paperback (A BANTAM MODERN CLASSIC, March 15, 1968)
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  • What Makes Sammy Run?

    Budd Schulberg

    Paperback (Bantam Books, March 15, 1951)
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  • What Makes Sammy Run? Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, Signed

    Budd Schulbergt

    Hardcover (Random House c, March 15, 1990)
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