New Releases by Budd Schulberg

Lorsque Marcia Coulihan voit débarquer Lonesome Rhodes dans la petite radio locale de Fox, Wyoming, où elle assure l’intérim, elle saisit vite son intelligence derrière le personnage de péquenot naïf qu’il incarne à la perfection. Dès sa première chronique, Rhodes déchaîne l’enthousiasme des auditeurs. S’inspirant du village d’Arkansas dont il affirme être originaire, il met en scène les personnages truculents de « sa famille » le cousin Abernathy, la tante Lucybelle sans oublier « son pép頻 Bascom pour s’adresser directement à l’Amérique ordinaire, entre deux extraits de folk et d’énormes éclats de rire : « c’qui nous faut c’est un peu plus de bons sentiments chrétiens et rudement moins de ce tourneboulis de notre époque. » Son destin bascule quand il fait campagne contre le shérif local. Le Time dépêche un chroniqueur et Lonesome, accompagné de Marcia, s’envole vers Chicago où il conquiert une audience nationale grâce son émission quotidienne « Votre voyageur de l’Arkansas ». Galvanisé par le succès, Lonesome se mêle de tout, donne, entre deux histoires drôles, son avis sur les maux, réels ou imaginaires, dont souffre le pays. Il s’érige en porte-parole d’une Amérique modeste, conservatrice et rurale, mais pétrie de bon sens. Comme le souligne Marcia : « En ce siècle d’angoisses atomiques, l’Amérique en revenait à la sagesse des bons vieux adages qui avaient fait sa grandeur. » L’argent afflue, les publicitaires se battent pour gérer son image, placer des produits dans son émission, des millions d’anonymes envoient des dons à sa fondation caritative. La consécration intervient avec son show TV, grande messe nationale, qui fait trembler les politiques de tous bords. Lonesome Rhodes devient un état dans l’état et profite de son influence pour s’adresser directement aux gouvernants étrangers, comme Winston Churchill. Ivre de pouvoir et d’alcool, il se tue accidentellement avant d’avoir eu le temps de déclarer la guerre aux « angliches » et aux « ruskoffs ». Adaptée au cinéma par Elia Kazan, Un homme dans la foule est une satire féroce, angoissante, du populisme et de l’influence des médias de masse. Écrit en écho au maccarthysme de l’époque, l’irrésistible ascension de l’incontrôlable et outrancier Lonesome Rhodes ne peut que résonner aujourd’hui.

Former boxer Terry Malloy and his brother Charley, the crooked lawyer known to all as ''the Gent'', are members of the tough, mobster-connected New York Longshoremen Union, run by Johnny Friendly. Johnny and his goons rule the waterfront with an iron fist, meaning that if you want to stay alive, you do things Johnny''s way: plead ''D & D'' - deaf and dumb. On The Waterfront is one of the most gripping tales of political corruption and individual heroism of our time. The 1954 film, starring Marlon Brando, achieved massive critical acclaim and went on to win eight Oscars, including Best Actor for Brando as well as Best Film and Best Screenplay for Schulberg. On The Waterfront is rightly considered a modern classic and is as powerful a read today as it was fifty years ago.

“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.

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

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

El ex boxeador Terry Malloy y su hermano Charley, un abogado sin escrúpulos conocido como el Caballero, forman parte del duro sindicato de estibadores de Nueva York, conectado con la mafia y dirigido por Johnny Friendly. Él y sus matones controlan los muelles con mano de hierro; para seguir vivo hay que hacer las cosas a su manera y volverse sordo y mudo. Terry, de pocas luces e iletrado, lleva a cabo cualquier trabajo que le pidan. Hasta que un día conoce a Katie, cuyo hermano ha sido asesinado por infringir la ley del silencio. Entre ellos surge una atracción que despierta la adormilada conciencia de Terry, quien, ante las exhortaciones del padre Barry, un idealista cura católico, decide dar un paso al frente para derrocar la tiranía de la mafia. En una fabulosa introducción, el propio Budd Schulberg nos explica cómo surgieron tanto esta novela como el guión de la película homónima—dirigida por Elia Kazan y protagonizada por Marlon Brando—a partir de la información recopilada a lo largo de años de investigación en la ribera portuaria de Nueva York. "''La ley del silencio'' nació del talento de Budd Schulberg, un escritor con una vida apasionante, un hombre cuya carrera es fiel reflejo de todos los vaivenes del siglo xx". Gregorio Belinchón, ''El País'' "Una trama en la que la tragedia griega y el drama shakespeareano descienden a los bajísimos fondos". Rodrigo Fresán, ''ABC Cultural'' "Magnífica". J.J. Armas Marcelo, ''ABC Cultural'' "Un libro redondo". ''The New York Times'' "Emocionante, conmovedor, fascinante". ''The New Republic''

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.

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.

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.

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».