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Sinatra
The Life
by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan


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The husband-wife team present what is billed as "the first fully documented, comprehensively researched, birth-to-death biography" of the famed singer and actor.

Knopf, 592 pages
05/17/2005
$26.95

ISBN: 0375414002

Nonfiction
Biographies & Memoirs

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Entertainment Weekly Chris Willman

The most definitive Sinatra bio to date, an absorbingly comprehensive -- if curiously matter-of-fact -- catalog of his triumphs and bottomless, alcohol-fueled rages.

Los Angeles Times Eric Lax

Perhaps not the definitive "Life," as suggested in the subtitle but at least a fascinating account of the man who made popular music an art form. [29 May 2005, p.R2]

The Independent Tom Dewe Mathews

What distinguishes this biography is their insistence that you can't separate sin from Sinatra, that you can't divorce the heavenly voice from the underworld friends.

Publishers Weekly

Their delivery is a lot closer to objective biography than tabloid sensationalism. [9 May 2005, p.64]

The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Peter Feniak

His postwar fall from grace is a touching tale, and the party-filled nights with Jack Kennedy hold a lurid appeal, but the ominous tone of Sinatra: The Life grows wearying. [11 Jun 2005, p.D12]

USA Today Deirdre Donahue

Although readable, the biography fails to present a comprehensive portrait.... To put it bluntly, the reader wants more cultural context and fewer FBI reports.

Washington Post Richard Harrington

Sinatra is certainly thorough, a massive undertaking that nonetheless falls curiously flat.

The Economist

In “Sinatra: The Life”, you never for a minute get a feel for the man, or, most important, his music.

Atlantic Monthly Benjamin Schwarz

This slackly written, cobbled-together book is third-rate Vanity Fair fodder, not a biography.

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Sinatra The Life by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan

Sinatra
The Life
by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan