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Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill (1998, Hardcover) 
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Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill (1998, Hardcover)

Author: Pete Hamill
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0316347965
ISBN-13: 9780316347969
Product ID: EPID512371
Description: Pete Hamill's evocation of Frank Sinatra begins in the archetypal Sinatra milieu of a New York City bar after midnight, rain outside, Sinatra and a few pals discussing sports and Hemingway. Within the space of a few paragraphs, Hamill ma...
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Synopsis
Pete Hamill's evocation of Frank Sinatra begins in the archetypal Sinatra milieu of a New York City bar after midnight, rain outside, Sinatra and a few pals discussing sports and Hemingway. Within the space of a few paragraphs, Hamill manages to evoke the singer's greatness, intelligence, and humanity, and the respect and even awe he has always engendered among lesser mortals, as well as the gnawing melancholy in his soul. The fusion of Hamill's deft prose and Sinatra's almost mystical aura sustains a book that, more than mere biography, cuts to the core of the artist's meaning in both a musical and a human sense. Hamill's many years as a New York newspaperman combine with his personal experience of growing up with the Sinatra phenomenon to provide a visceral account of the singer's life and times, the effects he produced on fans and detractors alike, and the model he became for a certain kind of after-hours contemplation of the vagaries of life. WHY SINATRA MATTERS is a perceptive meditation on the spirit of an American icon, the city conjured by his greatest musical period, and the timeless community of the lovelorn, lost, and lonely whose hopes and dreams he came to represent.

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Publication Date:1998-10-01

Size
Length:185 pages
Height:7.8 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:9.6 oz

Publisher's Note
In this unique tribute, veteran journalist and award winning author Pete Hamill remembers and pays tribute to the legacy of Frank Sinatra. Why Sinatra Matters draws on Hamill's years-long friendship with Sinatra; this is not an impersonal magazine issue full of photos or a quickie bio, but a personal, thoughtful testimony which is sure to pique interest.

Industry Reviews
Like a musical Elements of Style, Hamill's slim meditation on Frank Sinatra is confident, smart and seamless. Since (and immediately before) Sinatra's death in May 1998, countless tributes have been made to the singer; Hamill (A Drinking Life) seems to be writing to set the record straight, for he knew Sinatra and, before that, knew the singer's music. But Hamill doesn't fawn over Sinatra the way other, younger writers have recently done. Rather, he elegantly tells the Sinatra story, dwelling on the singer's best recordings, dismissing "the Rat Pack, the swagger, the arrogance, the growing fortune, the courtiers," because in the end, he writes, they are "of little relevance." What matters, according to Hamill, is the music, chiefly that of Sinatra's early mature years, when the singer released his celebrated albums on the Capitol label. Where a starry-eyed author might vaguely praise these albums for their pathos and vulnerability, Hamill points out that, before the singer's Capitol comeback years, Sinatra's fans were almost exclusively young women. The stubborn, post-Ava Gardner heartache of Sinatra's later records, however, with their lack of self-pity, gained Sinatra a chiefly male audience. Of this, perhaps the singer's greatest musical period, Hamill writes that Sinatra "perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy.... Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture." That may be true, but Hamill sets his book apart from the many others about Old Blue Eyes by tempering intelligent superlatives with the retelling of touching, revelatory moments the two men shared. Hamill's is a definitive introduction to Sinatra's work. (Oct.)
Bukey

The barrage of recent Frank Sinatra books has resulted in his being the most written-about celebrity in the world after Monroe and Presley. Hamill's slim essay is distinguished from other recent works by its objective focus on the components of the late singer's enduring musical legacy. Veteran writer Hamill (e.g., A Drinking Life, LJ 1/94) is comfortable in the New York City milieu of late nights, saloons, and prizefighters, and he has captured the essence of Sinatra, who created something that was not there before he arrived: an urban American voice. The book's strength is its insight into and evocation of the Italian American immigrant experience that had such a strong influence on Sinatra. Minor weaknesses are an oversimplified examination of prejudice and an underdeveloped 1974 vignette about Ava Gardner that fails to make its point. Recommended for public and academic libraries. Bruce Henson, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta
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