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.
Critic Reviews
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Favorable
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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.
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Favorable
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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]
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Favorable
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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.
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Mixed
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Publishers Weekly
Their delivery is a lot closer to objective biography than tabloid sensationalism. [9 May 2005, p.64]
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Mixed
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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]
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Unfavorable
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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.
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Unfavorable
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Washington Post Richard Harrington
Sinatra is certainly thorough, a massive undertaking that nonetheless falls curiously flat.
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Terrible
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The Economist
In “Sinatra: The Life”, you never for a minute get a feel for the man, or, most important, his music.
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Terrible
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Atlantic Monthly Benjamin Schwarz
This slackly written, cobbled-together book is third-rate Vanity Fair fodder, not a biography.
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