07487cam a2200457 4500 249032784 TxAuBib 20151224120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385535403 0385535406 B00TCI0P74 Amazon c28f8802-0124-4e48-a39c-7018743ca6d9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 214483 2198517 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kaplan, James, 1951- Sinatra [Bridges eBook] : The Chairman. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 50MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 50MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML: Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's bestselling Frank: The Voice--finally the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed "The Entertainer of the Century," deserves and requires. Like Peter Guralnick on Elvis, Kaplan goes behind the legend to give us the man in full, in his many guises and aspects: peerless singer, (sometimes) powerful actor, business mogul, tireless lover, and associate of the powerful and infamous. In 2010's Frank: The Voice, James Kaplan, in rich, distinctive, compulsively readable prose, told the story of Frank Sinatra's meteroic rise to fame, subsequent failures, and reinvention as a star of live performance and screen. The story of "Ol' Blue Eyes" continues with Sinatra: The Chairman, picking up the day after Frank claimed his Academy Award in 1954 and had reestablished himself as the top recording artist in music. Frank's life post-Oscar was incredibly dense: in between recording albums and singles, he often shot four or five movies a year; did TV show and nightclub appearances; started his own label, Reprise; and juggled his considerable commercial ventures (movie production, the restaurant business, even prizefighter management) alongside his famous and sometimes notorious social activities and commitments. From the Hardcover edition.. "...[R]emarkably insightful, gracefully, often eloquently, written history of popular music and celebrity culture in twentieth-century America--all viewed through the lens of an iconic singer and undervalued actor whose wildly contradictory personality and tempestuous personal life built the legend but detracted from the man's genius as an artist.... As astute in his psychological analysis as in his music criticism, Kaplan makes sense of the singer's insistence on taking way too many encores by noting Sinatra's need forconstant movement: 'He was like a whole body case of restless leg syndrome.' That restlessness finally shook itself out, but, along the way, it drove a skinny kid from Hoboken to live a life that, as Kaplan concludes, 'touched almost every aspect of American culture in the twentieth century.' That's a bigstatement, but this big book makes us believe it.". HTML:Booklist, starred review. "The great singer-actor contains multitudes in this vast, engrossing biography of Frank Sinatra's mature years... Kaplan's sympathetic but unflinching narrative revels in the entertainer's scandalous private life while offering rapt, insightful appreciations of his sublime recording and stage performances. It situates him and his Rat Pack at the Vegas headquarters of a postwar American culture that yoked mobsters and prostitutes to Kennedys and other luminaries. His Sinatra is often appalling, sometimes inspiring, and always a fascinating icon of an energetic, resonant, yet doomed style of masculinity.". HTML:Publishers Weekly, starred review. HTML:"Fifty pages from the end of Sinatra: The Chairman, the second and concluding volume of James Kaplan's magisterial biography of Frank Sinatra, I guarantee you'll begin to weep. Not because you've finished a 900-plus-page book (though you will feel relief), or because Kaplan so persistently details the ugly truth about Sinatra... No, you will weep over the death of a massive and unforgettable talent whose style of living helped define post-war America, and you will weep for an America that no longer exists, whether you lived during those years or just yearn for their return.". HTML:Sibbie O'Sullivan, The Washington Post. "Kaplan's second volume is a hand-stitched tapestry with many, many recurring motifs... The remarkable thing is that Sinatra's career is such a compelling transit of the 20th century in American entertainment and politics--and an early and prophetic blending of the two--that the endless Kaplan book is endlessly engaging. His Sinatra is a magnificent monster--imperious and callow, thuggish and tender, an exquisitely lonely man forever surrounded by a posse of hangers-on.". HTML:Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal. "I think James Kaplan's two volume set is the definitive word on Frank Sinatra, as definitive as any biography of any public figure can be. It's jammed with something juicy on almost every page. It has been written with integrity and affection. It neither sugar coats or demonizes. It presents what all stars are--ordinary mortals with ordinary cares, writ large by fame, and in Sinatra's case, a peerless talent. Sinatra concocted a towering life on the American landscape.". Liz Smith. HTML:"The degree to which that brutality is from reality and not just comic mythology in Vegas lounges can be read about in full glorious technicolor detail in one of the huge, and hugely compelling, books of 2015, Sinatra: The Chairman, the second volume of James Kaplan's wildly readable doorstop biography that began with the near-definitive Frank: The Voice.". HTML:Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News. HTML:"Do not be deterred by the book's heft. Sinatra: The Chairman is a riveting read--a juicy, painstakingly researched, excitingly written examination of a brilliant musician, an uneven and temperamental actor, and a charming, erratic, deeply flawed man.". HTML:Julia M. Klein, The Boston Globe. "The meatiness of the material justifies the length of the author's second (and concluding) volume of his biography of Frank Sinatra (1915-1998). Just as his subject matured. HTML:Kirkus Reviews, starred review. "Such a book stands or falls on its author's storytelling ability. In that regard, Kaplan does admirably, with a sense of momentum and a fair, balanced tone.". HTML:James Gavin, Newsday. Biography & Autobiography. Performing Arts. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-12-24 20:00:02. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=c28f8802-0124-4e48-a39c-7018743ca6d9 http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c28f8802-0124-4e48-a39c-7018743ca6d9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c28f8802-0124-4e48-a39c-7018743ca6d9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c28f8802-0124-4e48-a39c-7018743ca6d9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)