After posting this piece I discovered that “Sammy Glick” is no longer the instantly-recognizable archetype he was a generation ago. So I wrote this Sammy explainer here and speculated on why Budd Schulberg’s most famous creation faded from the vernacular: https://timothynoah.substack.com/p/whatever-happened-to-sammy-glick …https://twitter.com/newrepublic/status/1398660356604665857 …
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Appalachia has produced a lot of Sammy Glicks, but they usually don't get past the state legislature.
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