A portrait of the entertainer analyzes the private world behind his public persona while surveying his role in popular culture, tracing his life from his rise from the streets of Hoboken to his Oscar-winning performance in "From Here to Eternity."
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Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century&;infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma. Now James Kaplan brings deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable voice, from Sinatra&;s humble beginning in Hoboken to his fall from grace and Oscar-winning return in From Here to Eternity. Here at last is the biographer who makes the reader feel what it was really like to be Frank Sinatra&;as man, as musician, as tortured genius.
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