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Title: FRANK SINATRA: MY FATHER by Nancy Sinatra ISBN: 067162508X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: August, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.33
Rating: 1
Summary: Too Sweet to be wholesome.
Comment: The photographs are fab,then you start to read ,and a little voice says wait a minute,espically as ive just finised his way by kitty kelley,i know he is dad ,and she's his little chicken,but how anyone in there right mind would fill a book cover to cover with such sugar sweet garbage,as this is beyond me,unless of course your ego and arrogance is higher than everest,now where would she have got that from,her explaining away the acts of voilence and cruelty,of one of the most feard performers to ever tread the boards,are airily brushed away with "hell get mad,and youll get mad",but if you face him them all will be well, ah shucks ,that is if your head is still on your shoulders,here and there,the veneer seems to slip,such as when descriping Richard Burtons,tribute to sinatra,at a luncheon in sinatras honour.She commends burtons tribute,then icily adds his words were by someone else, burtons diaries (Rich a life)leave no illusions of he really thought of sinatra,somehow i get the feeling this didnt escape her,its these little cracks in the facade, that show the true nancy, like father like daughter,sorry honey you dont fool me for one minute, little chicken,little vulture,more like it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Glossy, but some interesting details
Comment: Unlike the recent book by Tina Sinatra (which I give five-stars) this book softsells any of FAS's well known liabilities. Nonetheless, it does contain some interesting details about his life. My one complaint is that Nancy Sinatra's other book "Frank Sinatra, American Legend" seems to be indistiguishable from this one, and indeed contains 80% of the same material yet was not published as a revision. This, earlier version is better in my mind because of her notes about each of his movies and albums at the end of the book. That material is missing in the American Legend version. Given her softsell, I do have to wonder what Nancy has to say about her sisters more forthright approach to their father's story.
Rating: 1
Summary: Too subjective: forget this if you want the truth
Comment: This is Nancy Sinatra's biography on her father, the legendary Frank. There have been many stories about him over the years; his drinking, his suspected alliance to the mafia, his womanizing... In Nancy's world none of this existed. No, Frank was a saint according to her, with no faults whatsoever. The greatest man that ever lived! I am not interested in some kind of tabloid-style, gossip-based diving into the rumours about him, but it would have been interesting to read a more nuanced view of who Frank really was. Nancy ignores all of that, and her perpetual praise of him, page after page, is very tiresome. Also, she takes the opportunity to use the book as a sort of biography on her own career (almost a third of the book is about herself -that's OK but then the title is misleading, I think). The only credit I can give the book is that there is interesting detailed information on Frank's career and I learned a lot about the music industry in the 40's and 50's. But I would like to read an outsider's story about Frank, a more objective one.
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Title: His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra by Kitty Kelley ISBN: 0553265156 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill ISBN: 0316347965 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Frank Sinatra: An American Legend by Nancy Sinatra ISBN: 1882071611 Publisher: B & B Audio Inc Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: My Father's Daughter: A Memoir by Tina Sinatra, Jeff Coplon ISBN: 0425181987 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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