The Disenchanted Author:Budd Schulberg Budd Schulberg's The Disenchanted is a brilliant and arresting book. Manley Halliday is a magnificent portrait of the wreck of a brilliant man. It is an open secret that Manley Halliday is patterened on Scott Fitzgerald...Halliday had everything - physical beauty, artistic brilliance, critical recognition and popular success, wealth, fame and ... more »the love of a beautiful wife. But he squandered his strength and talent in folly and extravagance, in perpetual parties and perpetual drinking. What was the reason which made this darling of the gods insist on his course of self-destruction?« less