Sammy Glick is a winner. Aggressive, ruthless and self-centred, he storms his way up from the New York slums to the top of the Hollywood film world in the 1930s. Sammy is a way of life, and when first published, this book established Sammy Glick as a symbol in American folklore.
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.
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. Drawing a revealing portrait of Uncle Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its Golden Age, the author expertly places Joe Louis and ...
Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning series of "New York Sun" articles about crime on the New York waterfront led to massive public policy shifts in labor laws, and inspired the classic film "On the Waterfront." The series of articles are collected here for the first time.
Schulberg, best known for On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd, wrote a relentless expose of the fight racket 50 years ago--a celebrated novel of the prize ring that has lost none of its power since its first publication. Crowded with unforgettable characters, The Harder They Fall tells of an Argentinian peasant ballyhooed by an unscrupulous ...
A collection of short stories. Characters featured include a young boy craving for attention from his busy Hollywood executive father, an upwardly mobile advertising man not yet ready for suburbia, and a silent screen has-been on the luckiest night of her life.
A collection of nearly 50 years of noted boxing writer (and author of the screenplay for "On the Waterfront") Budd Schulburg's best articles. The book includes coverage of the Ali-Foreman, Leonard-Duran, and Hagler-Hearns fights.
Containing more than 200 recipes, this book is a chronicle of the development of Zarela Martinez's cooking, describes her childhood and the foods of her family, the influences of other regions when she went away to school, and continues up to when she opened her own restaurant, Zarela. In addition to the detailed information on what it means to be ...
Matthew J. Bruccoli selects 55 of John O'Hara's over 400 short stories. All of these stories take place in Gibbsville, which is a thinly disguised rendering of Pottsville, O'Hara's birthplace.
On the Waterfront comprehensively examines one of the most important films of the Hollywood canon. Providing the historical context for the film, this volume emphasizes film making as a collaborative process rather than an 'auteurist' approach, although it does highlight individual contributions to the film and the political controversy generated ...
This is a behind the scenes look at the business and pleasure of horse racing. Horse racing may be known as "the sport of kings," but it's big fun for everyone and even bigger business. A perfect mixture of beauty and excitement, action and refinement, it's a booming business that peaks annually when the Kentucky Derby turns Churchill Downs into ...
One of the most accomplished novelists and screenwriters of our time (What Makes Sammy Run?, On the Waterfront), Budd Schulberg is a master of the art of the short story, as he proved in his early collection Some Faces in the Crowd. The crowd is the American landscape: indelible characters drawn coast-to-coast from the teeming streets of New York ...
Punch Lines: Berger on Boxing By Phil Berger. Foreword by Bert Sugar. Profiles of Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, and many more, by the former boxing correspondent for the New York Times. illustrated/index ISBN: 0-941423-95-6
Photographer and writer Arlene Schulman took ten years to photograph the work that appears in this book. It is a collection of photographs which capture the life of the prizefighter in and out of the ring. Her writing details the hopes and desires of the youngest boys in amateur contests, through contenders in training, journeymen in defeat and ...
Ten stories published between 1920 and 1937, including some of Fitzgerald's best: "The Rich Boy," "Crazy Sunday," "May Day," "A Diamond Big as the Ritz," "Winter Dreams, "Absolution," and "The Long Way Out."
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
