Sinatra: The Chairman

Sinatra: The Chairman

Just in time for the Chairmanâ€™s centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplanâ€™s bestselling Frank: The Voiceâ€”which completes the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed the â€œEntertainer of the Century,â€ 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) accomplished actor, business mogul, tireless lover, and associate of the powerful and infamous.
Â Â Â In 2010â€™s Frank: The Voice, James Kaplan, in rich, distinctive, compulsively readable prose, told the story of Frank Sinatraâ€™s meteoric rise to fame, subsequent failures, and reinvention as a star of live performance and screen. The story of â€œOlâ€™ Blue Eyesâ€ continues with Sinatra: The Chairman, picking up the day after he claimed his Academy Award in 1954 and had reestablished himself as the top recording artist. Sinatraâ€™s life post-Oscar was astonishing in scope and achievement and, occasionally, scandal, including immortal recordings almost too numerous to count, affairs ditto, many memorable films (and more than a few stinkers), Rat Pack hijinks that mesmerized the world with their air of masculine privilege, and an intimate involvement at the intersection of politics and organized crime that continues to shock and astound with its hubris. James Kaplan has orchestrated the wildly disparate aspects of Frank Sinatraâ€™s life and character into an American epicâ€”a towering achievement in biography of a stature befitting its subject.
Country USA
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-27
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Anchor
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-10-27
Format	Kindle eBook