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　　Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a

triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen

photographs.

　Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twenti?eth

century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notori?ous in equal

measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained

an enigma. As Bob Spitz did with the Beatles, Tina Brown for Diana,

and Peter Guralnick for Elvis, James Kaplan goes behind the legend

and hype to bring alive a force that changed popular culture in

fundamental ways.

Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict of

his own personality. He also made the very act of listening to pop

music a more personal experience than it had ever been. In Frank:

The Voice, Kaplan reveals how he did it, bringing deeper insight

than ever before to the complex psyche and tur?bulent life behind

that incomparable vocal instrument. We relive the years 1915 to

1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the first time

Sinatra’s journey from the streets of Hoboken, his fall from the

apex of celebrity, and his 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.

FRANKIE AND DOLLY

HARRY AND TOMMY

HIGHER   AND   HIGHER

ICARUS

THE PHOENIX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PHOTO CREDITS

NOTES AND SOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

　　JAMES KAPLAN is a novelist and nonfiction writer whose essays,

reviews, and profiles have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York

Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York. He coau?thored

John McEnroe’s autobiography, You Cannot Be Serious, a number-one

New York Times bestseller, and coauthored the bestselling Dean and

Me with Jerry Lewis. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his

wife and three sons.

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　　Wonderfully vivid.... The story of Frank Sinatra’s rise and

self-invention and the story of his fall and remarkable comeback

had the lineaments of the most essential American myths, and their

telling, Pete Hamill once argued, required a novelist, ‘some

combination of Balzac and Raymond Chandler,’ who might ‘come closer

to the elusive truth than an autobiographer as courtly as Sinatra

will ever allow himself to do.’ Now, with FRANK: THE VOICE, Sinatra

has that chronicler in James Kaplan, who has produced a book that

has all the emotional detail and narrative momentum of a novel.

Kaplan writes with genuined sympathy for the singer and a deep

appreciation of his musicianship, and devotes the better part of

his book to an explication of Sinatra’s art: the real reason

readers care about him in the first place.

　　—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

　　" Monumental... FRANK: THE VOICE is a timely reminder of what all

the fuss over Sinatra was about in the first place. Kaplan follows

in the footsteps of Peter Guralnick, whose magisterial two-volume

biography of Elvis Presley was a landmark excavation of the artist

from the dead-celebrity junk pile. Striking a similar, though more

stylized, note, Mr. Kaplan offers a retelling of the early life of

Francis Albert that illuminates the incredible-but-true origins of

a 20th-century phenomenon. "

　　—Wall Street Journal

　　"Fascinating...compelling...marvelously thoughtful [and]

readable. Kaplan brings something valuable and new to this account

of Sinatra's first four decades, culminating in his cinematic

triumph in From Here to Eternity and stunning vocal comeback in the

early 1950s. First and most valuable, Kaplan gives us an

illuminating portrait of a serious artist who helped revolutionize

his medium. Kaplan also does a brilliant job of suggesting how the

way Sinatra sang the song grew out of the life of an artist every

bit as confounding and conflicted as his era — a man by turns

generous, attentive and immensely decent, then ugly, violently

abusive and self-absorbed to the point of cruelty."

　　—Los Angeles Times

　　"Sinatra lovers will be enthralled by Kaplan's generous approach

to the guy who sang about 'how little we know.'"

　　—O, The Oprah Magazine

　　"[A] lively, anecdote-crammed biography of the world's greatest

saloon singer.... Kaplan...writes with insight and grace."

　　—Bloomberg

　　"Masterful... a vivid, fast-paced narrative... [An] immensely

readable account of Frank Sinatra's rise from sweet-singing mama's

boy to teen idol to Academy Award-winning actor."

　　—Bookpage 

　　"Fascinating.... For anyone who wants to know what popular

culture and celebrity felt like around the middle of the twentieth

century, this book is the new bible."

　　—Bill Ott, Booklist, starred review

　　"Riveting... Kaplan's enthralling tale of an American icon serves

as an introduction of "old blue eyes" to a new generation of

listeners while winning the hearts of Sinatra's diehard

fans."

　　—Publishers Weekly, starred review

　　"This book may be the fullest account of Sinatra’s first 40

years... His youth, persistence in pursuing a singing career,

relationships with women, work with band leader Tommy Dorsey, the

controversial reversal of his draft status during World War II, and

relationships with musicians and mafiosi are all presented with

panache and clarity."

　　—Library Journal

　　“The answer to 'what is there left to say about Sinatra' is

staggeringly answered in James Kaplan's new book. This story has

never been told with such incisiveness, care, research and respect.

With so many new revelations, you might never really know who Frank

Sinatra is until you read this book.”

　　—Michael Feinstein

　　“Jim Kaplan’s great gift is his own voice, in peak form—stylish,

seductive, and richly resonant—that stands up to Sinatra’s powerful

baritone. This is a perceptive, passionate biography of an immense

and immensely flawed musical figure whose life and legend continue

to fascinate.”  

　　—Bob Spitz, author of The Beatles

　　“This is biography at its very best—the story of a fascinating

character brought to life as never before through superb writing,

impeccable research and penetrating insight.  It is a terrific

book.”

　　—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals

　　“Sinatra was to 20th Century stagecraft what Churchill was to

statecraft: the towering presence of the age. In this lyrical

narrative, suffused with a mastery of popular culture, Frank is

back—this time as a major figure in American history.”

　　—Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year

One  

　　“James Kaplan succeeds not just in bringing Frank Sinatra alive

in all his complexity, but in revealing in detail how he

consciously, deliberately, and painstakingly transformed himself

into a triumphantly successful entertainer and a national

icon.”

　　—Michael Korda, author of Ike

　　“At long last, we have a biography of Sinatra worthy of the

man...a pop innovator whose influence remains incalculable, whose

art remains undiminished. James Kaplan tells this story with the

authority of a writer who inhabits his subject from deep inside.

The pages fly by on the wings of song.”

　　—Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams and

Warning Shadows

书籍介绍

Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen photographs.

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. As Bob Spitz did with the Beatles, Tina Brown for Diana, and Peter Guralnick for Elvis, James Kaplan goes behind the legend and hype to bring alive a force that changed popular culture in fundamental ways.

Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict of his own personality. He also made the very act of listening to pop music a more personal experience than it had ever been. In Frank: The Voice , Kaplan reveals how he did it, bringing deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable vocal instrument. We relive the years 1915 to 1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the first time Sinatra’s journey from the streets of Hoboken, his fall from the apex of celebrity, and his 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.