Twenty dazzling stories by the writer behind On the Waterfront and A Face in the CrowdDespite growing up among Hollywood's most powerful producers and movie stars in the 1920s and '30s, Budd Schulberg was always a populist at heart. In this collection of his best short fiction, Schulberg takes readers from the halls of privilege in Los Angeles to smoky dives and dockyard slums in New York. His eye for detail and nose for trouble render characters as vividly as a Weegee photograph. These stories also represent the great clash of people and ideas in mid-century America. The collection includes "The Arkansas Traveler," the story Schulberg adapted into the influential, prescient film A Face in the Crowd starring Andy Griffith.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.

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...

<p><b>He may be a giant but giants have been licked before. Don’t forget Goliath. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.</p></b>Eddie Lewis, former student of Princeton and would-be playwright, never expected to make his living writing lies. But that’s precisely what he does to pay his rent: Eddie is a manipulator of headlines, an inventor of hyperbole, all on behalf of his boss Nick Latka and his dealings in the boxing business. Nick’s latest project is the massive Toro Molina, discovered in the Argentine and now being primed for the fight – or at least, for a few elaborate performances.</p><p> For in the world of 1940s boxing, fixing the game is all too easy. Latka and his team of promoters, punch-drunk ex-fighters and professional gamblers play the unwitting Molina for all they can get. As ‘the Giant of the Andes’ is bled on the ropes by the rapacious criminals of the fighting game, Eddie is...

Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power, grittiness, and truth of that great production, but goes beyond it in set and setting. It is a novel of strength and fallibility, of hope and defeat, of love and betrayal. In his Introduction, Mr. Schulberg writes: "The film's concentration on a single dominating character, brought close to the camera eye, made it esthetically inconvenient, if not impossible, to set Terry's story in its social and historical perspective…suggesting the knotted complexities of the world of the waterfront that loops around New York."From BooklistStarred Review Johnson was a New York Sun reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for his series of 24 front-page articles in 1948, detailing crime on the New York waterfront. The series exposed what he called an "outlaw frontier," where organized criminals had a stranglehold on the ports. These gangs enforced their reign of terror through thievery, control of narcotics traffic, smuggling, shakedowns, kickbacks, bribery, extortion, and murder. They were allied with a crime cartel that Johnson labeled the syndicate--now known as the Mafia--that controlled organized crime in the U.S., including the powerful International Longshoremen's Union. Among the crime bosses were Charles (Lucky) Luciano, Frank Costello, and Meyer Lansky. Johnson's stories served as primary source material for investigations, as well as for novels, radio and TV shows, and movies--most notably On the Waterfront in 1954. Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist and son of Malcolm Johnson, has written an engrossing foreword. Budd Schulberg, the author of What Makes Sammy Run? (1940) and the screenplay for On the Waterfront, has written an equally informative introduction and related articles that appeared later in magazines. The book will renew interest in On the Waterfront with its brilliant cast that included Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, and Karl Malden. The book is a gripping account of one man's courage and foresight that eventually brought down the Mob. George CohenCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reservedReviewA recovered jewel! -- Scott Liell, author of 46 PagesAn intriguing episodic account of true crime and survival on New York's outer edges. -- Kirkus ReviewsOn the Waterfront is a notable example of reportage that has outlasted its dateline. -- Matthew J. Bruccoli, author of Some Sort of Epic GrandeurOne of the proudest monuments in the history of investigative journalism.... -- Benjamin C. Bradlee, former editor, Washington PostTold brilliantly and authoritatively through the eyes and ears of a fearless reporter, ON THE WATERFRONT is a remarkable achievement. -- James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

Including stories from Schulberg's early work at Dartmouth in the '30s to his more recent pieces, here is a haunting collection of short stories that largely deal with two of Schulberg's best-known themes: underdogs and Hollywood.

RetailBudd Schulberg's love affair with boxing began when he was twelve, when he saw his first bouts at the Hollywood Legion. Over the years, between novels, he was Sports Illustrated's first boxing editor and covered title fights for Playboy, Esquire, Newsday, and the New York Post. This new book collects the best of Mr. Schulberg's reportage on the Sweet Science, from Benny Leonard to Muhammad Ali to George Foreman. In addition to pieces on the great fights and great fighters of the last seventy-five years, Mr. Schulberg offers reflections on the social history of the fight game; the mystique of the heavyweight championship; the seamy side of the boxing business; and his own sparring match with Ernest Hemingway, when two aficionados of prizefighting had a verbal go at each other. Throughout, Mr. Schulberg is a pleasure to read and a passionate defender of an often maligned sport. "Boxing and civilization—any civilization—stand in delicate balance," he writes. "But if our civilization is indeed declining and if it finally falls, it will not be because Joe Louis clobbered Schmeling or took the measure of Billy Conn. Or because Ali made Bad Sonny Liston quit in his corner. Or because Joe Frazier landed a tremendous, humbling left hook on the controversial jaw of gallant braggadocio Muhammad Ali.”