What Makes Sammy Run? Is the story of the title character, Sammy Glick, who rises during the Great Depression from the bottom of the news media world to become a powerful media mogul. Sammy is shown as sociopathic, greedy, and extremely disloyal. The story is narrated by his sometimes friend Al Manheim, a critic at Sammy's paper. Near the novel's conclusion Sammy, isolated and frightened by success, is shown to repent somewhat, but he quickly backslides into decadence and sociopathy.
The New American Dream Hollywood aside from being a metonym for the American film industry has come to symbolize Manifest Destiny and the American Dream Hollywood also carries an implication of pace not just of the fast wild lifestyles that people in the film industry lead but of the quickness with which dreams are made and just as easily dashed Despite the high risk high reward nature of Hollywood it still epitomizes the rags to riches story that America has dubbed the American Dream In What M