Book description
In 1941, at age twenty-five, Sinatra told a friend, 'I'm going to be
the best singer in the world'. Two years on, 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 music'. 'To
hell with the calendar,' a music critic wrote before his death in
1998, 'The day Frank Sinatra dies, the twentieth century is over.'
There have been many books about Sinatra, but the last comprehensive
biography was Kitty Kelly's HIS WAY, published in 1986. it has taken
renowned biographer Anthony Summers years to research this new
biography, which promises to be the definitive story of a musical and
film career spanning six decades. In this massively documented book,
meticulous investigation is coupled with sensitivity to examine every
aspect of Sinatra's life, public and private, from his obscure
beginnings in an immigrant neighborhood in Jersey City to his twilight
years as a living legend in Palm Springs. It tells the human story of
an American icon who was irresistible to women and who was plagued
throughout his life by scandal and hints of links with the Mafia. In
this book, Summers finally uncovers the whole truth.
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 assasination 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.
