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Released: Sept. 1, 1995
"Ol' Blue Eyesthe book reveals its subject without transcending it."
An adoringand at times vexingly detailedlook at one of pop music's most enduring and controversial icons.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 1998
"And although Levy's take on all this is suitably critical, there is something creepily voyeuristic about the relish with which he peddles these tales. (16 pages b&w photos, not seen) (Author tour)"
Levy shifts the focus from one of show business's great egotists, Jerry Lewis (King of Comedy, 1996), to entertainment's most hedonistic gathering of narcissists, the Rat Pack.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1998
"Despite its brevity, Why Sinatra Matters belongs in any collection of important books on American popular music of the 20th Century."
What a perfect match: the world's greatest "saloon singer" eulogized superbly by the author of The Drinking Life (1993).
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 1998
"If he ever writes a Sinatra book, it will be one to look for."
This collection of 18 essays (including a 1945 plea for racial harmony by Sinatra himself), 13 of them new, is a mixed bag of superb musical and technical insight, interesting cultural studies analysis, and pure blather.
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Released: March 1, 1999
"A weirdly affecting portrait of innocence verging on monomania."
A debut novel by critic and showbiz historian Kashner (Hollywood Kryptonite, 1996) that portrays the inner life of a demented Frank Sinatra fan.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 1, 2000
"The brothers Kuntz (Tom is a New York Times editor, Phil, a Wall Street Journal reporter) use journalism as a kind of noble rot: musty memoranda, under their careful sifting, ferment into a historical morality fable in which celebrity conquers all. (8 b&w photos, not seen)"
Far from stale gossip and bureaucratic tedium, this is a carefully edited and annotated compendium of FBI files on Sinatra, made public under the Freedom of Information Act.
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