Sinatra, Anthony Summers
Sinatra, Anthony Summers
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Sinatra
The Life

Author: Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan

Narrator: Tony Roberts

Abridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2005

Synopsis

Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled relationships with U.S. presidents. Exclusive breakthroughs include the discovery of how the Mafia connection began--in a remote Sicilian village--and moving interviews with his lovers. Never-before-published conversations with Ava Gardner get to the core of the tragic passion that dominated his life, came close to destroying him, and made his best work heartbreakingly personal. Sinatra delivers the full life story of a complex, flawed genius.

About The Author

Anthony Summers, a former BBC journalist, is the author of six bestselling books, including The File of the Tsar, on the fate of the Romanovs; Not in Your Lifetime, on the assassination of President Kennedy; Official and Confidential, on J. Edgar Hoover; and The Arrogance of Power, on Richard Nixon. He won the Golden Dagger, the Crime Writers’ Association’s top nonfiction award, for Not in Your Lifetime. Robbyn Swan worked with Summers on the Hoover and Nixon biographies, and both authors have contributed to Vanity Fair and PBS’s Frontline. They are married, have five children between them, and live in Ireland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on April 18, 2019

Catching up with one of my forgotten reads from long ago. Remember it was quite good with lots of name dropping, of course.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on June 06, 2016

I Listen to Dead People I grew up thinking Elvis was strictly for dead people and Frank, Bing and all of those guys were beyond dead, even zombies thought they were too dead. All those guys were The Enemy, but us young generation were off their radar, we were free of all of those crap songs for swing......more

Goodreads review by Jay on November 15, 2007

This book was very very dense. Dates, names, references that needed to be remembered were easily in every paragraph. It's a 400 page book with over 100 pages of sources after that. That is nuts. The author went to great lenghts to obtain first hand testimony in regards to every topic brought forth.......more

Goodreads review by Lanko on December 28, 2024

Absolutely fascinating. I knew nothing of the man or his music and got the book in a used bookstore essentially for the shiny cover after vising the place three times, as if the book begged me to pick it. I'm glad I did. Sometimes grabbing a random book that would never appear as a recommendation on a......more

Goodreads review by John on November 05, 2008

I found this not only to be a fascinating biography on Frank Sinatra, but also a revealing look at some of the other famous lives that Frank assocated with: Ava Gardner, Jack Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe. An amazing singing talent, Frank lived life excessively in terms of drink, women, and his mafia......more

Quotes

"The most definitive Sinatra bio to date." —Entertainment Weekly“A definitive, generational work. . . . The first fully documented biography since Sinatra's death.”—Vanity Fair“First-rate reporting. . . . Dense and intimate.” —People“A mountain of information. . . . Fascinating” —Los Angeles Times“Only the most patient, judicious, unflappable of writers, and ones sincerely devoted to Mr. Sinatra’s music, could have written this book. . . . It’s safe to say Sinatra: The Life will remain definitive for years to come.” —Dallas Morning News

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