Sinatra
The Chairman
$56.97
- Paperback
992 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2018
Summary
Just in time for the Chairman’s centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan’s bestselling Frank: The Voice
Finally the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed ‘The Entertainer of the Century,’ deserves and requires. Like Peter Guralnick on Elvis, Kaplan goes behind the legend to give us the man in full, in his many guises and aspects: peerless singer, (sometimes) powerful actor, business mogul, tireless lover and associate of the powerful an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751547443 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0751547441 |
| Author: | James Kaplan |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 992 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 652g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 44mm |
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Critics Review
Kaplan writes with an addictive wiliness, vigour and feeling that suit his subject … to a tee - Daily Telegraph
Authoritative and enjoyable … important too - Sunday TimesA wealth of entertaining detail about the singer’s career, gnawing personal insecurity, lavish sexual indulgence, and obsessive musical virtuosity - The ObserverEvokes a sense of period with crackling energy - Sunday ExpressVery few writers can write coherently about what makes music work. Fewer still can tell what makes it profound. Kaplan can - The AgeAt last, Sinatra has the biography he deserves - The Irish TimesAbout The Author
James Kaplan
James Kaplan is a novelist and nonfiction writer whose essays, reviews and profiles have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire and New York. He co-authored John McEnroe’s autobiography, Serious, a number-one New York Times bestseller and co-authored the bestselling Dean and Me with Jerry Lewis. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and three sons.
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