Book Circle Reads 82Rating: 4.5* of fiveThe Publisher Says: Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symptoms 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...
Budd Schulberg tells us what it was like to grow up along with the movie business. Born in 1914, just as his father's career was beginning to blossom, Budd experiences the ups and downs of life among the "elite;" the fluid marriage contracts, the trysts and the toll these take on the families is...
Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket. A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an un...
Well, if you’ve been following Big George Foreman as long as I have—from the Olympic Games in Mexico City twenty-three years ago, to his disastrous night with Ali in Zaire (the “Rumble in the Jungle”) six years later, to a pilgrimage to his Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Houston and his horse...
He went into the loft and busied himself cleaning out the nest boxes. One wall of the coop was lined with orange-crates, with each pair of birds occupying one compartment. Terry liked to watch the mates building their nests from the clean straw and he enjoyed the regular way the cocks and hens to...
This was Jose Fuentes. If you remember him at all, and you must be an old-timer at the fight clubs if you do, you remember a tough little Mexican kid with a wild left hook, weak on brains but strong on heart. Young Pancho Villa the Third, he used to call himself. No champion, never in the big mon...