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Zusatztext "Davis's remarkable life is certainly well-trod territory. Nevertheless! through interviews with close friends and confidants who had never spoken publicly before! Birkbeck digs up many startling details." Informationen zum Autor Matt Birkbeck is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Deconstructing Sammy , The Quiet Don , and A Deadly Secret . He is also the executive producer of the hit Netflix film Girl in the Picture , which is based on his books A Beautiful Child and Finding Sharon . A former newspaper reporter and correspondent for People magazine, he’s also written features for Reader’s Digest , Playboy , The New York Times , Philadelphia Inquirer , and Boston Magazine, among others. He lives in Pennsylvania. Klappentext Adored by millions, Sammy Davis Jr. was considered an entertainment icon and a national treasure. But despite lifetime earnings that topped $50 million, Sammy died in 1990 near bankruptcy. Years later his once-vivacious wife, Altovise, heir to one of the greatest entertainment legacies of the twentieth century, was living in poverty. With nowhere else to turn, she asked a former federal prosecutor, Albert “Sonny” Murray, to try to resolve Sammy's debts and restore his estate. For seven years Sonny probed Sammy's life and came to understand the tormented artist as a man of tragic complexity. Deconstructing Sammy is the extraordinary story of an international celebrity whose outsize talent couldn't save him from himself. Zusammenfassung Equal parts cultural history, celebrity biography, and brilliant investigative journalism, Deconstructing Sammy by Matt Birkbeck is a behind-the-scenes look at the disastrous fall of one of the brightest stars of Hollywood and Las Vegas: Sammy Davis, Jr. A member of the infamous Rat Pack, a compatriot of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and one of the most popular performers of his day, Sammy Davis, Jr. was an entertainment icon and a national treasure who earned more than $50 million over the course of his career yet ended up nearly destitute. Deconstructing Sammy tells the whole sad, sordid, fascinating true story. ...
