Trade paperback in good condition. Some wear to cover. Fine reading copy.
“Sinatra once said that the only two people he was ever afraid of were his mother and Tommy Dorsey—a flip comment by also a sincere and deeply significant one.”
Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth-century—infinately charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. Despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra has remained an enigma. James Kaplan goes behind the legend and hype to bring alive a force that changed popular culture in fundamental ways.
Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict of his own personality. He also made the very act of listening to pop music a more personal experience than it had ever been. Kaplan reveals how he did it, bringing deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind Sinatra’s incomparable vocal instrument. We relive the years 1915 to 1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the first time Sinatra’s journey from the streets of Hoboken, his fall from the apex of celebrity, and his Oscar-winning return in From Here to Eternity. Here at last is the biographer who makes the reader feel what it was really like to be Frank Sinatra—as man, as musician, as tortured genius.
Read Alikes for Sinatra: The Voice: Sinatra: The Chairman by James Kaplan; The Way You Wear Your Hat:Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’ by Bill Zehme; Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill; Sinatra: The Song Is You by Will Friedwald
Trade paperback in good condition. Some wear to cover. Fine reading copy.
“Sinatra once said that the only two people he was ever afraid of were his mother and Tommy Dorsey—a flip comment by also a sincere and deeply significant one.”
Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth-century—infinately charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. Despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra has remained an enigma. James Kaplan goes behind the legend and hype to bring alive a force that changed popular culture in fundamental ways.
Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict of his own personality. He also made the very act of listening to pop music a more personal experience than it had ever been. Kaplan reveals how he did it, bringing deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind Sinatra’s incomparable vocal instrument. We relive the years 1915 to 1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the first time Sinatra’s journey from the streets of Hoboken, his fall from the apex of celebrity, and his Oscar-winning return in From Here to Eternity. Here at last is the biographer who makes the reader feel what it was really like to be Frank Sinatra—as man, as musician, as tortured genius.
Read Alikes for Sinatra: The Voice: Sinatra: The Chairman by James Kaplan; The Way You Wear Your Hat:Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’ by Bill Zehme; Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill; Sinatra: The Song Is You by Will Friedwald
ISBN 978-0-7679-2423-8
James Kaplan
2010
