The Harder They Fall

The author of What Makes Sammy Run? faces the severest challenge a writer can meet: to make his second novel surpass his first sensational success. Budd Schulberg answers that challenge with The Harder They Fall.... The book is an indictment of the manipulation of professional boxers. The book was the basis for the powerful Mark Robson film in which Humphrey Bogart, in his final role, plays a cynical press agent who comes to realize the extent to which prizefighters are pawns of their managers, promoters and racketeers. Reprint Edition assumed with the lettering 'A.B.' present on the copyright and a boxed '1' at the bottom of the page (no edition stated). RANDOM HOUSE, NY 1947.