His Way - An Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

Zusatztext “The most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time.” — The New York Times   “A compelling page-turner . . . Kitty Kelley’s book has made all future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant.” — Los Angeles Herald Examiner Informationen zum Autor Kitty Kelley is a journalist who has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping,  and more. She is the bestselling author of Jackie Oh!; His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra; Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star; Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography; The Royals; The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty; Oprah: A Biography; and Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys. Klappentext #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday This is the book that Frank Sinatra tried-but failed-to keep from publication, and it's easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra to expose the well-hidden side of one of the most celebrated-and elusive-public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps, and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra's life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, friends). The result is a stunning, often shocking exposé of a man as tortured as he was talented, as driven to self-destruction as he was to success. Featuring a new afterword by the author, this fully documented, highly detailed biography-filled with revealing anecdotes-is the penetrating story of the explosively controversial and undeniably multitalented legend who ruled the entertainment industry for fifty years and continues to fascinate to this day. Praise for His Way "The most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time."-The New York Times "A compelling page-turner . . . Kitty Kelley's book has made all future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant."-Los Angeles Herald Examiner 1 On the night of December 22, 1938, two constables from Hackensack, New Jersey, headed for the Rustic Cabin in Englewood Cliffs to arrest Frank Sinatra. Armed with a warrant charging adultery, the two officers walked into the dim little roadhouse looking for the skinny singer who waited tables and sang with Harold Arden's band over the radio line to WNEW in New York. They waited until Frank finished his midnight broadcast and then sent word that they wanted to give him a Christmas present from one of his admirers. Falling for the ruse, Sinatra walked over to their table, where the criminal court officers arrested him and took him off to the courthouse. After posting five hundred dollars bail, he was released on his own recognizance. The next day a Hoboken newspaper carried a story headlined: songbird held in morals charge, but no one in Hoboken paid much attention. They were accustomed to seeing the Sinatra name in print for getting into trouble with the law. Frank's uncle Dominick, a boxer known as Champ Sieger, had been charged with malicious mischief; his uncle Gus had been arrested several times for running numbers; his other uncle, Babe, had been charged with participating in a murder and had been sent to prison. His father, Marty, was once charged with receiving stolen goods, and his mother, Dolly, was regularly in and out of courthouses for performing illegal abortions. And Frank himself had been arrested just a month before on a seduction charge. Frank's relationship with the woman who pressed criminal charges against him had begun earlier that year, when Antoinette Della Penta Francke, a pretty twenty-five-year-old who had long been separated from her husband, went to the Rustic Cabin. "H...

Product details

• Authors: Kitty Kelley
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.2010
• EAN: 9780553386189
• ISBN: 978-0-553-38618-9
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies