I need Chapter sumary and analysis of "What Makes Sammy Run?" by Budd
Schulberg. What website can I log in?

I almost want to pause in my offering help on this question, because
too often I find it to be some child or college student wasting their
parents money, who are missing out on an opportunity to read really
life-changing literature.  However, I will not let the burns of my
past color this question.

I searched long and hard and found no chapter-by-chapter synopsis of
the book in question.  Considering the length of time that this
question has sat, uncommented upon, I imagine that I am not alone in
my coming up short.

Although I have no read this piece of literature, I probably now will.
 As I gather, it is a satiric take on Hollywood, and the story
revolves around some one names Sammy Glick.  It also seems to have a
Jewish context, since it popped up on an alarming amount of Jewish
sites as a must-read book.

I did find this report someone has written, analysing the book.  As I
have not read the book myself, I cannot tell you whether it is worth
peanuts or not.  Given some time, I may read the book myself and give
you some interpretation as interpreting literature is my hobby.

The report can be found here:
http://www.chuckiii.com/Reports/English/what_makes_sammy_run_and_my_life.shtml

I must again warn that if you are asking this question because you
have been assigned to read the book, and do not wish to do the work
yourself, then shame on you and I hope that this synopsis is terrible.
 HOwever, if you are using it as a guide or as a check to your own
work, then good for you and I am glad that there is another
literature-lover out there who is interested in what others think
about the book.  In any means, that was my two cents and good luck.

:)
dexterpexter

Additionally, in the Ranodom house version, which may be purchased at:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?sourceid=00001804534419623312&ISBN=0679734228&bfdate=08-01-2002+22:15:42

The publisher had this to say about the book:
"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 measurelesspotentialities 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."