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September 28, 1990 - Image 98

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1990-09-28

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BY DETROIT MONTHLY

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Southfield. An the dishes you would expect to find
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Sammy Run

by young America's respect
for Sammy. He had not in-
tended to write a bible for
success, but a cautionary
tale of individualism run
amuck, of free enterprise at
its worst. Instead, Sammy
had not only become a career
guide, but forced Schulberg
to reconsider what made a
Sammy a Sammy.
In the book, Mr. Schulberg
had traced Sammy's passion
for success to a childhood of
deprivation and poverty on
the Lower East Side.
Sammy's father, Max
Glickstein, a pious Jew, had
spurned the one chance he
had for prosperity — becom-
ing a partner in a sweatshop
— when he joined his co-
workers on strike. Since
then, he had barely been
able to support his family.
When he died, his son said
he "died of dumbness."
To flee the ghetto, Sammy
became everything his
father had not been. That
generational split, immi-
grants vs. native born,
patriarchs vs. sons, said a
Chicago psychoanalyst in
the early 1940s, explained
the Sammy syndrome: The
father is unable to cope with
the new environment and
loses his prestige as his son,
a young know-it-all,
displaces him in the world.

"Success," wrote Dr. Franz
Alexander, "becomes the
supreme value and failure
the greatest sin because it
fails to justify the sacrifice of
the father." These immi-
grants' sons, then, became
"obsessed by the one idea of
self-promotion, a caricature
of the self-made man, and a
threat to Western civiliza-
tion."
But the Yuppies and the
Trumps and the Wall Street
arbitragers who became
real-life Sammys were the
heirs of prosperity, not the
children of immigrant have-
nots. They have compelled
Schulberg "to broaden my
approach to what makes
Sammy run. It's not only a
conflict in ethnic culture,
but something deeper in
American society. There is
something in our culture
that just drives and drives
people.
"If they have $50 million,
they want $100 million. If
they have $100 million, they
want $1 billion. All for the
sheer sake of being bigger
and more powerful. The
money is only a symbol.
"This sense of greed,
egoism and selfishness may
become so extreme that it
will provoke a reaction
against it, though. That's
possible. I don't know how
the 1990s will go."

The Party's Over

What Makes Sammy Run is
probably the only book de-
nounced simultaneously by
Hollywood moguls, the
Communist Party and many
Jews. This last group was
appalled that Sammy, a
world-class rat, was a scion
of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Either Sammy was a self-
hating Jew, they figured. Or
his creator, Mr. Schulberg,
was.
Sammy/Schulberg's
detractors did not think the
way Dorothy Parker did.
Reviewing Sammy, she
wrote, "Those who hail us
Jews as brothers must allow
us to have our villains, the
same, alas, as any other
race."
Mr. Schulberg repeatedly
insisted that he was not a

"What have I

done? Or what has
a changing,
greedier, more
cynical America
done to Sammy
Glick?"

bigot. If anything, he said,
the fact that all of Sammy's
victims were Jews suggested
the "wide range of per-
sonalities and attitudes
under the one ethnic um-
brella."
Today, Mr. Schulberg says
that Sammy "had almost
stopped being Jewish in a
sense. Being Jewish requires
a conscience, but Sammy
thinks of conscience as ex-
cess baggage."
Mr. Schulberg started
writing the book shortly
before he quit his brief
membership in the Commu-
nist Party, which had quite a
vogue in Hollywood in the
1930s. When Sammy was
published, the reviewer for
The Daily Worker, the
Communist newspaper,
praised it for its honesty and
absence of "of filth and four-
letter words."
But after the Party
chastised the reviewer,
Charles Glenn, for being so
kind to a writer who had
refused to submit his
manuscript for Party ap-
proval, Mr. Glenn re-reviewed
it, this time yapping at "the
conscience of a writer which
allows him, with full knowl-
edge of the facts, to show
only the dirt and the filth."
Elsewhere, Mr. Schulberg was
called "decadent, bourgeois,
defeatist and in-
dividualistic."
Over the next 10 years,
Mr. Schulberg says he "built
up considerable hostility to

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