![]() Illuminates the incredible-but-true origins of a 20th-century phenomenon.” -The Wall Street Journal Nobody has spun the old yarns with the raconteur’s touch and attitude that Mr. ![]() “ will be carried along by the undeniable pleasure of reading Kaplan’s page-after-page-turner, dense with details of long-forgotten trysts and tiffs, career and emotional highs and lows, movie- and record-business shenanigans. ![]() Sinatra lovers will be enthralled.” - O, The Oprah Magazine along comes James Kaplan’s Frank to tell us more. “Just when you think you know all the stories. This is a perceptive, passionate biography.” -Bob Spitz, author of The Beatles “Jim Kaplan’s great gift is his own voice, in peak form-stylish, seductive, and richly resonant-that stands up to Sinatra’s powerful baritone. A propulsive narrative that never flags.” - Los Angeles Times ![]() This book is biography at its best.” - The Dallas Morning News ![]() “Fascinating, superbly written. Whatever you think of Ol’ Blue Eyes, he led an incredible life, and his adventures make great reading. Kaplan does a nimble, brightly evocative job of tracing the development of Sinatra’s art, and his remarkable rise and fall and rise again.” -Michiko Kakutani, “Top 10 Books of 2010,” The New York Times ![]()
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