Most Popular Books by Budd Schulberg

“The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption.” (USA Today). “Toro” Molina certainly looks the part. He’s built like the Minotaur, but few would guess at the fear consuming the Argentine farmer and former circus performer after he’s brought to the United States to be the next heavyweight champion of the world. The problem is that Molina can’t box at all. But monstrous fight promoter Nick Latka fixes every fight on the way to the championship, and builds Toro’s renown with the help of cynical sports journalist Ed Lewis and a host of lackeys. First published in 1947, The Harder They Fall stands as a powerful exposé of professional boxing by one of the sport’s true poet laureates. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

DIVBudd Schulberg’s Academy Award–winning screenplay, updated as a stage drama for modern audiences First performed in 1988 and again on Broadway in 1995, Budd Schulberg and Stan Silverman’s stage version of On the Waterfront may represent the purest incarnation of his classic story. Produced forty years after the movie swept the Academy Awards, the subtly modernized stage play was a call to arms for a new generation. With this rendition, Schulberg and Silverman hoped to reach young people who seemed detached from the dehumanizing effects of poverty and the exploitation of society’s most vulnerable. Set in the 1950s and featuring original protagonists Terry Malloy and Father Pete Barry, On the Waterfront continues to stand as a masterful and uniquely American tragedy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div

Twenty gritty stories by the Academy Award–winning writer of On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd. Despite 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.

The Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront recounts his life, his career, and “how Hollywood became the dream factory it still is today” (Kirkus Reviews). When Seymour Wilson “Budd” Schulberg moved from New York to Los Angeles as a child, Hollywood’s filmmaking industry was just getting started. To some, the region was still more famous for its citrus farms than its movie studios. In this iconic memoir, Schulberg, the son of one of Tinseltown’s most influential producers, recounts the rise of the studios, the machinations of the studio heads, and the lives of some of cinema’s earliest and greatest stars. Even as Hollywood grew to become one of the country’s most powerful cultural and economic engines, it retained the feel of a company town for decades. Schulberg’s sparkling recollections offer a unique insider view of both the glitter and dark side of the dream factory’s early years. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Based on Schulberg''s novel, whose chief characters are based in part on F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife.

DIVStories of twentieth-century American literary giants, by the man who was their friend, peer, and confidant /divDIV When he was introduced to F. Scott Fitzgerald as a potential partner on a screenplay, novelist and scriptwriter Budd Schulberg was surprised the author was still alive. In Schulberg’s view, the pressures of success and the public’s merciless judgment had destroyed Fitzgerald’s talent early in his career—a situation that is arguably typical for many of America’s great literary geniuses. In Writers in America, Schulberg shares memories and insights from his relationships with authors such as Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Nathaneal West, and Sinclair Lewis, as well as brilliant writers who never attained the success and recognition they deserved, such as Thomas Heggen./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div

In this bountiful collection of his best boxing stories of the last half-century, Mr. Schulberg takes his fans all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England two hundred years ago; draws a revealing portrait of Uncle Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its Golden Age; expertly places Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali in the social history of their times; brings fans up to date in the careers of the great names of recent decades-Tyson, Holyfield, De La Hoya, Hopkins, Chico Corrales; and much more. His writing sparkles with authority and insight. Here is great writing on great fighters, laced with a realistic sense of boxing''s wrongs as well as its rights. Publication of Ringside is an event in the world of sports literature.

DIVSchulberg goes toe to toe with his lifelong passion in this collection of his greatest writings on boxing/divDIV “As much as I love boxing, I hate it.” So begins screenwriter, novelist, and journalist Budd Schulberg’s collection of essays on the sweet science of bruising, a sport that fueled his literary ambitions and unsettled his conscience from a young age. He gives riveting accounts of classic bouts, such as Rocky Marciano–Archie Moore, Muhammad Ali–George Foreman, and Marvin Hagler–Thomas Hearns. Yet these essays also offer insight into the sport’s sociological significance from a man who covered its highlights and corruption-marred lowlights for decades. Sparring with Hemingway stands as the unparalleled history of boxing’s place in American culture throughout the twentieth century./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div

DIVSchulberg’s Academy Award–winning screenplay about ex-boxer and dock worker Terry Malloy, whose talent made him a contender and whose courage will make him a hero/divDIV The film On the Waterfront garnered eight Oscars; the leading role of Terry Malloy was perhaps Marlon Brando’s tour de force. But none of these achievements would have been possible without the explosive, inspired script written by Budd Schulberg. The story of stevedores sweating and dying for a corrupt, Mob-run union, and one former boxer’s quixotic fight for dignity, stands among the most iconic narratives of American cinema. Deeply influenced by Schulberg’s own reporting on New York and New Jersey crime families, unions, and the boxing world, as well as on earlier reporting by Malcolm Johnson, this screenplay represents a singular confluence of American artistry and political history./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div

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.

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.

Surveys the life and career of the controversial boxer and attempts to show Ali''s significance as a black athlete caught up in the moral turbulence of the sixties and seventies.

Play for the screen about the rise of a television personality, based upon "Your Arkansas traveler" from the author''s "Some faces in the crowd."

Once described as a frontier beyond the frontier, the Everglades in Florida was long a haven for the lawless--a hideout for moonshiners, outlaws and smugglers. Throughout the labyrinth of mangrove keys, there were deadly snakes and alligators, exotic vegetation and trees filled with varicolored plume birds. Against this primeval setting, the motion picture Across the Everglades brings into drmatic focus the war that was waged between the ruthless exterminators of rare bird species and the conservationists of wildlife in the hidden land--in the days when Miami was little more than a frontier town and Miami Beach was a swamp. The full text includes a long Introduction which provides a rich visual image of the dazzling wonders of the Everglades and the castaway life of its unruly inhabitants.--Jacket.

The fatal struggle between political activism and questioning idealism is dramatized in the raging yet loving confrontation of: Angel Bello, First Colonel of the Revolution--mercurial, shrewed, dedicated--who would never send a man to his death unless his half-Marxist, half-existentialist muses warned him it was neccessary ... and Justo Moreno Suarez, complex man of conscience, unwilling victim of a tide that has swept past the democratic revolution he fought for into a communism he can neiher accept nor disavow.

El desencantado es una novela fascinante. Budd Schulberg, en plena efervescencia de lo que acabó convirtiéndose en el gran mito de Hollywood, nos narra la estrecha colaboración entre un joven guionista y un reputado escritor venido a menos, contratados ambos para reescribir un guión. Radiografía desnuda y reconstrucción admirable del agitado mundo del cine, de los dorados años veinte y de la gran depresión de los treinta en América, se erige en una novela sobre el éxito y la posterior decadencia de uno de sus escritores más renombrados—hábilmente caracterizado con las sombras del último Scott Fitzgerald—y que, en palabras de Anthony Burgess, «perdurará en la imaginación de todos aquellos que tengan la inmensa fortuna de leer por vez primera esta excepcional novela».

Sammy Glick quiere ser un «ganador». Es agresivo, despiadado, extraordinariamente egocéntrico y no tiene principios. Consigue ascender, de chico de los recados neoyorquino, a magnate del Hollywood de los años treinta. En su figura, parece difícil no reconocer la sombra de alguno de los nombres fundacionales de la industria cinematográfica. ¿Por qué corre Sammy?, publicada originalmente en 1941, es un relato punzante en el que Budd Schulberg exhibe su profundo conocimiento de la meca del cine ya mostrado en su magistral De cine. Memorias de un príncipe de Hollywood (publicado en esta misma editorial), aunque esta vez prefiera usar de la ficción, refrendando así su condición de clásico de la novela norteamericana.

Qu''est-ce qui fait courir Sammy ?, c''est la question qui hante le narrateur dès les premières lignes du roman, quand le tout jeune Sammy n''est encore qu''un garçon de bureau s''agitant dans tous les sens et qui reviendra, tel un refrain lancinant, jusqu''au bout de cette irrésistible ascension. Entre-temps, Sammy est devenu journaliste, chroniqueur radio, scénariste à succès, producteur de cinéma et, pour finir, patron de studio, grimpé au sommet des collines d''Hollywood. Pour y planter son pouvoir comme d''autres plantent leur drapeau sur le pic de la plus haute montagne du monde il a triché, trahi, employé les moyens les plus vils, massacré des êtres et tordu des sentiments, prototype de l''arriviste pressé, poursuivant un but que personne ne connaît et écrasant tout sur son passage pour finir par dominer l''univers de toute sa pathétique solitude. Qu''est-ce qui fait courir Sammy ?, il faudra aller loin, jusque dans les tréfonds de son enfance pour espérer répondre enfin à la question qui rythme, comme un battement de cœur frénétique, cette histoire d''une terrifiante modernité.

Este libro trata de un paraíso, el de los primeros años de Hollywood, visto a través de los ojos de un niño, hijo del gran B.P. Schulberg que estuvo en los orígenes de tantos proyectos de la naciente industria y que se mantuvo durante años a la cabeza de la Paramount Pictures. En sentido estricto, más que las memorias de su autor (el famosísimo guionista de La ley del silencio o de Más dura será la caída o del novelista de mérito que escribiera El desencantado o ¿Por qué corre Sammy?) el presente libro es un friso informal pero coloreado e histórico de la más revolucionaria industria cultural del siglo xx. Rico en anécdotas, captura con brillantez la atmósfera, dorada y sórdida, que acompañó a Hollywood desde su fundación hasta las cumbres de su edad de oro.