What Makes Sammy Run?

SCHULBERG, Budd

Published by Random House, 1941

About this Item

Budd SCHULBERG / What Makes Sammy Run? published by Random House 1941 blue cloth with gilt, hardcover in dustjacket. 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. jacket has a lot of wear, tear and repair, hardcover inside has some edge wear, rubbing, small stain insde front cover, previous owners bookplate. otherwise inside is clean tight and very good.

Seller Inventory # BX59-30

Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Makes Sammy Run?
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction