Sinatra: The Chairman
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Rating | : | 4.49 (800 Votes) |
Asin | : | B016P8DOCQ |
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Number of Pages | : | 442 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-05-04 |
Language | : | English |
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In 2010's Frank: The Voice, James Kaplan, in rich, distinctive, compulsively understandable prose, told the story of Frank Sinatra's meteroic rise to fame, subsequent failures, and reinvention as a star of the stage and screen. Frank's life post-Oscar was incredibly dense: In between recording albums and singles, he often shot four or five movies a year; did TV show and nightclub appearances; started his own label, Reprise; and juggled his considerable commercial ventures (movie production, the restaurant business, even prizefighter management) alongside his famous and sometimes notorious social activities and commitments.. Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's best-selling Frank: The Voice - finally the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed "The Entertainer of the Century", deserves and requires. The
The Greatest Singer, The Worst Person Mark Mellon With almost nine hundred pages of actual text not to mention an extensive bibliography and notes, this is probably the closest to a definitive biography of the singer we’ll ever see. This is especially true since so many quoted sources were from live interviews with people w. Kaplan completes gossipy biography, but is it history? S. A. McMullen This has been called the best biography ever written on Frank Sinatra, and it most likely is. Nearly 2,000 pages when combined, the two volumes by James Kaplan, this being volume 2, covers an extraordinary life in much detail, mixing music history, social commentary, movie lore, a. Fifty Shades of Enormous One thing that struck me about Sinatra's life, and I have never veered from this opinion, was that without realizing it, Frank married his mother when he married Ava, and that explains some of the source of their off and on turbulent relationship. I don't know what Ava's problem w