Best frank sinatra biography
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Juicy new Sinatra bio timed to centennial
Sinatra: The Chairman, the closing volume in James Kaplan’s double-barreled biography of Frank Sinatra, is best read with a dose of Sinatra downloads close at hand. As an impeccably sourced catalog of Sinatra’s bad behavior throughout the resurrected second half of his extraordinary career, this 883-page tome is definitive, and irresistibly engrossing.
It is also exhausting – as Sinatra himself could be – and often exasperating, as Sinatra indisputably was. Frequent breaks to reconnect with Frank: The Voice (also the title of Kaplan’s first volume) are decidedly required.
The bounty of Sinatra’s boo-boos are the stuff of biographical beneficence. His blowups, his break-ups, his gangster fetishism, his Kennedy fixation – these are all gifts that just keep on giving for any biographer and Kaplan mines them as effectively as any of Sinatra’s many biographers before him. Kaplan has not uncovered so much that is new, but he does synthesi
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My Kind Of Book: The Best Stories On Frank Sinatra
You can almost fill an entire library with books written on Frank Sinatra. It has been 20 years since the legend’s death and the world is still fascinated with the man named Frank. Here are some books that share images, stories and intimate details of Sinatra’s life from his youth all the way to his final days for those who love him and those who are just discovering him.
Some are composed of interviews of those who knew Sinatra best, including his family and friends while others are reflections on his monumental impact on the music, movie and fashion industry.
No matter which cover you crack open on the blue-eyed crooner, in the end, he did it his way.
The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’
By Bill Zehme
This best-selling homage to Frank Sinatra, The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’ bygd Bill Zehme is a beautifully bound collection of intimate details of the croo
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Does Sinatra Finally Have the Biography He Deserves?
Thanks for joining me to discuss James Kaplan’s new Frank Sinatra biography, Frank: The Voice. The technical begrepp for a book like this, if I’m not mistaken, fryst vatten door-stopper. The thing is big; I nearly got a hiatal hernia schlepping my galley around town. It’s 800 pages long, and it covers less than half of Sinatra’s life, from his birth in Hoboken, N.J., in 1915 to the 1953 Oscar win for From Here to Eternity that kick-started his mid-career comeback. In other words, this book is as long as Anna Karenina, and it doesn’t even get us to In the Wee Small Hours (1955) and Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1956) and Come flyga eller fly undan with Me (1958) and Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)—the Capitol Records masterpieces that stand as the summitofSinatra’sart. Presumably a second volume, the size and weight of a convection oven, will arrive in bookstores one of these years.
I’ll say this for Frank: The Voice: The title ge