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Title	:	What Makes Sammy Run?
Author	:	Budd Schulberg
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	May 7th 2002 by Random House (first published 1941)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Novels. Culture. Film

What Makes Sammy Run?

Budd Schulberg

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 1984 Users | 201 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	What Makes Sammy Run?
ISBN:	0375508317 (ISBN13: 9780375508318)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sammy Glick

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Ratings: 4.08 From 1984 Users | 201 Reviews

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What Makes Sammy Run tells the story of Sammy Glick, a man with boundless ambition and no morals to stand in his way. It is told from the point of view of Al Manheim, who watches Sammy's meteoric rise with anger, jealousy and awe. It has come to be one of the classic "Hollywood Novels" portraying Hollywood at its worst and most truthful, and as someone who works and lives in Hollywood, a lot of what Schulberg was trying to convey still remains true to this day. The book got a lot of criticism

Interesting outlook on a young man who is ruthless in his tactics in getting ahead - it doesn't matter who he destroys on his way up -- it's all about himpg 263, paperback edition". . . instead of letting himself go he just sounds one note over and over again.I know which note this is too, I said. Mi mi mi mi mi . . ."Sound familiar?

This is a great little book. And very indicative of the type of "me first" thinking that has come to infect and identify American culture as we have come to know it of late. Sammy Glick is the fore-runner to all of the Wall Street bankers of today - the oil industry execs - all of the "contestants" on the reality shows who think that they deserve the prize more than anyone else (and they'll pay people to vote for them, bribe people, etc) - of the fashion industry wannabes who stab people in the

This style of this 1941 book made me think a bit of "lowbrow" bestsellers that came much later like Jacqueline Susann's "Valley of the Dolls" (1966) or Harold Robbins'"The Carpetbaggers" (1961). It has that "rags to riches" storyline and focus on Hollywood..I found this interesting because most of the early 20th century American fiction I've read has either been literary classics (e.g. "Great Gatsby" (1925) or "Mice and Men"(1937)) or children's books/Fantasy/SciFi. So it was nice to read

Sammy is the little guy, the one you miss seeing, who you forget about. But he is ruthless. And he is running. Always running. Schulberg provides us a chilling portrait of fairyland - where the movies aremade. A very, very good read.

Al Manaheim is one of my favorite characters in fiction. I was bound to like this book since it has many parallels to The Great Gatsby, although its subject, Sammy Glick, is romanticized much less than Jay Gatsby. In many ways I feel this is an essential modern tale that all other modern stories have sprung from, but that is probably hyperbole. I love this book though.

I am about to eat serious crow. When "Sammy" was selected for my book club read, I wondered (aloud) why we should be reading an old book that could not possibly be relevant today. Oh how wrong I was!Aside from being splendidly written, fast paced and absorbing ... the story, the quest, the always fragile success ... are totally relevant to life in America today. Who do we know who, like Sammy Glick, is so completely absorbed in himself, who lies constantly and without remorse, and who destroys