FRANKIE - The Life and Loves of Frank Sinatra E-Book

Don Dwiggins

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Savine
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

• How much influence does Sinatra have in Washington? • Is Sinatra involved in the rackets? • What’s the lowdown on his break-up with Ava? • What happens when a member of the Clan proves disloyal? • How great a lover is he?These are but a few of the questions answered in this definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, one of the most controversial men of our time. (1961 - Don Dwiggins)

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Hollywood’s Loveable Rogue

FRANKIE

The Life and Loves of Frank Sinatra

by DON DWIGGINS

New digital edition of:

FRANKIE - The Life and Loves of Frank Sinatra

by Don Dwiggins

© 1961 by Paperback Library, Inc. New York

Copyright © 2016 - Edizioni Savine

email: [email protected]

ISBN 978-88-99914-00-4

CONTENTS

FRANKIE - The Life and Loves of Frank Sinatra

PREFACE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII

PREFACE

•    How much influence does Sinatra have in Washington?

•    Is Sinatra involved in the rackets?

•    What’s the lowdown on his break-up with Ava?

•    What happens when a member of the Clan proves disloyal?

•    How great a lover is he?

These are but a few of the questions answered in this definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, one of the most controversial men of our time.

In 25 years as a Hollywood newspaperman, author Don Dwiggins, now with the Los Angeles Mirror, has covered a kaleidoscope of stories from the Black Dahlia murder case (unsolved) to the execution of Caryl Chessman.

Like Sinatra, Dwiggins has been married and divorced twice. Instead of a Clan, Dwiggins is President of a unique organization known as the San Fernando Valley Widows Association.

“A happy bachelor,” he says, “never goes to work twice from the same direction.”

He first worked the “Sinatra beat” at 4:30 one dreary Saturday morning when he reported at the Mirror office for first edition rewrite.

“It was a dull day and the editors were looking for a headline story,” he recalls. “Sinatra had been in a beef at the Moulin Rouge with a parking lot attendant. They decided to give it a ride.

“Later, I looked into the story to get all the facts and the more I checked the more I was convinced Sinatra had gotten a bum deal by the press.

“More investigation proved that while there was much to criticize Frank for, there was also quite a lot to be said in his defense—stories which the press never reported. The result was this book about the most popular man in town—and why he’s so lonely.”