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100	1		_aSummers, Anthony, _d1942-
245	1	0	_aSinatra : _bthe life / _cby Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan.
260			_a[London] : _bCorgi Books, _c2005.
300			_a585 p. : _bill., portraits ; _c20 cm.
500			_aIncludes index ; With softcover
504			_aNotes: p. 470-532 ; Selected bibliography: p. 533-545
520	0		_aSinatra is the story of an American icon who held the imagination of millions for more than fifty years and whose influence in popular music was unsurpassed in the twentieth century. As a child, he said, he had heard "symphonies from the universe" in his head. No one could have imagined where those sounds would lead him. Tracing the arc of this incredible life, from the humble beginnings in Hoboken to the twilight years as a living legend in Malibu, Sinatra follows a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Drawing on a treasure trove of documents and interviews, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan reveal stunning new information about Sinatra's links to such Mafia figures as Sam Giancana and Lucky Luciano. And we see for the first time where the Mafia connection began, how and why it lasted, and how it impinged on others, not least President John F. Kennedy. Here, too, is the core of the private Sinatra--alternately caustic and sympathetic--that the singer so long concealed. The heartbreaking truth about his passion for Ava Gardner emerges from never-before-published conversations with Gardner herself. In exclusive, intimate interviews, the women who loved Sinatra--some of them unknown to the public until now--share memories of the joy and pain of their relationships with him. And we learn what it was like to be the friend of a man who was generous and loyal to a fault, yet--as some of his fellow Rat Packers discovered--who could turn abruptly into a vindictive brute.
600		4	_aSinatra, Frank, _d1915-1998
650	1	4	_aSingers _zUnited States _vBiography
700	1		_aSwan, Robbyn
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