Sinatra, Anthony Summers
Sinatra, Anthony Summers
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Sinatra
The Life

Author: Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 17 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/31/2005

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 is the author of several bestselling nonfiction books. After leaving Oxford University, he worked in television, becoming a senior journalist for the BBC’s flagship current-affairs program. He covered the United States, the Middle East, and the Vietnam War. His books have included biographies of President Richard Nixon and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.Robbyn Swan graduated from Smith College. She and her husband, Anthony Summers, have been partners on three books, have contributed to Vanity Fair, and have been consultants on documentaries for PBS, the History Channel, CNN, and the BBC.Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. His stage appearances throughout the US include Cyrano, Hamlet, and MacBeth. In the audio industry, Scott has won over 20 Earphones Awards, as well as the 2003 Audie Award in the Best Science Fiction category for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. After recording nearly 250 books in five years, AudioFile Magazine named Scott “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy” and proclaimed him one of their Golden Voices. Brick’s range is unparalleled as he reads thrillers to narrative nonfiction, from biographies to science fiction with aplomb.

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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