Summary
The first and last definitive, fully-documented, massively researched birth-to-death biography of Frank Sinatra by the bestselling author of File on the Tsar and Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe.
In 1941, at age twenty-five, Sinatra told a friend, “I’m going to be the best singer in the world.” Two years later, the bobbysoxers were already weeping and screaming for him in their thousands. Half a century on, Bono defined him as “the Big Bang of popular musi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552153317 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552153311 |
| Author: | Robbyn Swan, Anthony Summers |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Corgi Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2006 |
| Weight: | 412g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 37mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Astonishingly well-researched…incredibly well-sourced
Astonishingly well-researched…incredibly well-sourced * Independent on Sunday *
Summers and Swan tell us much that is new, and with panache. Compelling …sterling work * Sunday Times *
Astonishing book…uncovers new evidence * Daily Express *
A definitive, generational work * Vanity Fair *
First-rate reporting…dense and intimate * People *
Anthony Summers never writes a book that fails to offer accurate material you will find nowhere else…No surprise then that Sinatra: The Life is one of the very few, bona fide, three-dimensional portraits of an amazingly complex, interesting and sometimes god-awful guy – Norman Mailer
About The Author
Robbyn Swan
Anthony Summers worked for many years as a senior producer on Granada’s World in Action and on the BBC’s Panorama, and produced many landmark TV documentaries. His bestselling books include THE FILE ON THE TSAR, CONSPIRACY (about the JFK assassination which won the CWA Gold Dagger), GODDESS (about Marilyn Monroe) HONEYTRAP and THE ARROGANCE OF POWER (on Nixon).
Robbyn Swan is a writer for VANITY FAIR, LIFE MAGAZINE and others.
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