Budd Schulberg

WHEN BANDS WERE BIG AND SO WERE MEN

Budd Schulberg, 1914-2009

Wikipedia/Dartmouth CollegeBudd Schulberg in the mid-1950s​"The first time I saw him he couldn't have been much more than sixteen years old, a little ferret of a kid, sharp and quick. Sammy Glick." So begins What Makes Sammy Run?, the quintessential, mid-20th century novel about Hollywood ambition ... More >>

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