Why Sinatra Matters, Pete Hamill
Why Sinatra Matters, Pete Hamill
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Why Sinatra Matters

Author: Pete Hamill

Narrator: Joe Knezevich

Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2015

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In honor of Sinatra's 100th birthday, Pete Hamill's classic tribute returns with a new introduction by the author.

In this unique homage to an American icon, journalist and award-winning author Pete Hamill evokes the essence of Sinatra--examining his art and his legend from the inside, as only a friend of many years could do. Shaped by Prohibition, the Depression, and war, Francis Albert Sinatra became the troubadour of urban loneliness. With his songs, he enabled millions of others to tell their own stories, providing an entire generation with a sense of tradition and pride belonging distinctly to them.

With a new look and a new introduction by Hamill, this is a rich and touching portrait that lingers like a beautiful song.

About Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill was born in Brooklyn in 1935 and is, for many, the living embodiment of New York City. In his writing for the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and New York magazine, he has brought the city to life for millions of readers. He is the author of many bestselling books, including the novels Forever and Snow in August, as well the memoir A Drinking Life. He recently moved back to Brooklyn.


Reviews

Why Sinatra Matters I was raving to a friend about Pete Hamill, a favorite author and this book was recommended to me. Found it for pennies, and purchased it. Me and Frank, we don’t know each other, and obviously haven’t cared to change that situation thus far, so it was a little odd to be cracking o......more

Goodreads review by Aidan

Pretty good, quite succinct. Don't love Sinatra as a person, but I think it gave a good overview of how he impacted things. A good overview. There is also a personal touch and relationship from the author to Frank which makes this a unique book.......more


Quotes

"The most intimate and thoughtful eulogy for 'the Voice'....It leaves you wanting to listen again to Sinatra's best songs."—Entertainment Weekly

"As succinct and laconically classy as its title."
Adam Woog, Seattle Times

"Hamill's illuminations are considerable without ever stooping to facile psychologizing....He does a better job of placing Sinatra's saga in a social and political context than any of his biographers have....Why Sinatra Matters is most valuable in its explication of how Sinatra came to formulate a musical style that was a sound track to urban American life."
Dan DeLuca, Philadelphia Inquirer

"A graceful reminiscence of Sinatra after hours serves as the frame for shrewd reflections on the singer's art, his personality, his audience, and--most interesting--his ethnicity, a subject about which Hamill, against all odds, contrives to say fresh and persuasive things."
Terry Teachout, New York Times Book Review

"A brief but eloquent homage....Hamill succeeds--convincingly, with natty aplomb--in explaining why Sinatra, even now, matters."
Tom Chaffin, LA Weekly