Frank(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a
triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen
photographs.
　Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twenti?eth
century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notori?ous in equal
measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained
an enigma. As Bob Spitz did with the Beatles, Tina Brown for Diana,
and Peter Guralnick for Elvis, James Kaplan goes behind the legend
and hype to bring alive a force that changed popular culture in
fundamental ways.
　　Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict of
his own personality. He also made the very act of listening to pop
music a more personal experience than it had ever been. In Frank:
The Voice, Kaplan reveals how he did it, bringing deeper insight
than ever before to the complex psyche and tur?bulent life behind
that incomparable vocal instrument. We relive the years 1915 to
1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the first time
Sinatra’s journey from the streets of Hoboken, his fall from the
apex of celebrity, and his Oscar-winning return in From Here to
Eternity. Here at last is the biographer who makes the reader feel
what it was really like to be Frank Sinatra—as man, as musician, as
tortured genius.

　　JAMES KAPLAN is a novelist and nonfiction writer whose essays,
reviews, and profiles have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York
Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York. He coau?thored
John McEnroe’s autobiography, You Cannot Be Serious, a number-one
New York Times bestseller, and coauthored the bestselling Dean and
Me with Jerry Lewis. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his
wife and three sons.

FRANKIE AND DOLLY
HARRY AND TOMMY
HIGHER   AND   HIGHER
ICARUS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHOTO CREDITS
NOTES AND SOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

　　Wonderfully vivid…. The story of Frank Sinatra’s rise and
self-invention and the story of his fall and remarkable comeback
had the lineaments of the most essential American myths, and their
telling, Pete Hamill once argued, required a novelist, ‘some
combination of Balzac and Raymond Chandler,’ who might ‘come closer
to the elusive truth than an autobiographer as courtly as Sinatra
will ever allow himself to do.’ Now, with FRANK: THE VOICE, Sinatra
has that chronicler in James Kaplan, who has produced a book that
has all the emotional detail and narrative momentum of a novel.
Kaplan writes with genuined sympathy for the singer and a deep
appreciation of his musicianship, and devotes the better part of
his book to an explication of Sinatra’s art: the real reason
readers care about him in the first place.
　　—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
　　” Monumental… FRANK: THE VOICE is a timely reminder of what all
the fuss over Sinatra was about in the first place. Kaplan follows
in the footsteps of Peter Guralnick, whose magisterial two-volume
biography of Elvis Presley was a landmark excavation of the artist
from the dead-celebrity junk pile. Striking a similar, though more
stylized, note, Mr. Kaplan offers a retelling of the early life of
Francis Albert that illuminates the incredible-but-true origins of
a 20th-century phenomenon. “
　　—Wall Street Journal
　　”Fascinating…compelling…marvelously thoughtful [and]
readable. Kaplan brings something valuable and new to this account
of Sinatra’s first four decades, culminating in his cinematic
triumph in From Here to Eternity and stunning vocal comeback in the
early 1950s. First and most valuable, Kaplan gives us an
illuminating portrait of a serious artist who helped revolutionize
his medium. Kaplan also does a brilliant job of suggesting how the
way Sinatra sang the song grew out of the life of an artist every
bit as confounding and conflicted as his era — a man by turns
generous, attentive and immensely decent, then ugly, violently
abusive and self-absorbed to the point of cruelty.”
　　—Los Angeles Times
　　”Sinatra lovers will be enthralled by Kaplan’s generous approach
to the guy who sang about ‘how little we know.'”
　　—O, The Oprah Magazine
　　”[A] lively, anecdote-crammed biography of the world’s greatest
saloon singer…. Kaplan…writes with insight and grace.”
　　—Bloomberg
　　”Masterful… a vivid, fast-paced narrative… [An] immensely
readable account of Frank Sinatra’s rise from sweet-singing mama’s
boy to teen idol to Academy Award-winning actor.”
　　—Bookpage 
　　”Fascinating…. For anyone who wants to know what popular
culture and celebrity felt like around the middle of the twentieth
century, this book is the new bible.”
　　—Bill Ott, Booklist, starred review
　　”Riveting… Kaplan’s enthralling tale of an American icon serves
as an introduction of “old blue eyes” to a new generation of
listeners while winning the hearts of Sinatra’s diehard
fans.”
　　—Publishers Weekly, starred review
　　”This book may be the fullest account of Sinatra’s first 40
years… His youth, persistence in pursuing a singing career,
relationships with women, work with band leader Tommy Dorsey, the
controversial reversal of his draft status during World War II, and
relationships with musicians and mafiosi are all presented with
panache and clarity.”
　　—Library Journal
　　“The answer to ‘what is there left to say about Sinatra’ is
staggeringly answered in James Kaplan’s new book. This story has
never been told with such incisiveness, care, research and respect.
With so many new revelations, you might never really know who Frank
Sinatra is until you read this book.”
　　—Michael Feinstein
　　“Jim Kaplan’s great gift is his own voice, in peak form—stylish,
seductive, and richly resonant—that stands up to Sinatra’s powerful
baritone. This is a perceptive, passionate biography of an immense
and immensely flawed musical figure whose life and legend continue
to fascinate.”  
　　—Bob Spitz, author of The Beatles
　　“This is biography at its very best—the story of a fascinating
character brought to life as never before through superb writing,
impeccable research and penetrating insight.  It is a terrific
book.”
　　—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals
　　“Sinatra was to 20th Century stagecraft what Churchill was to
statecraft: the towering presence of the age. In this lyrical
narrative, suffused with a mastery of popular culture, Frank is
back—this time as a major figure in American history.”
　　—Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year
One  
　　“James Kaplan succeeds not just in bringing Frank Sinatra alive
in all his complexity, but in revealing in detail how he
consciously, deliberately, and painstakingly transformed himself
into a triumphantly successful entertainer and a national
icon.”
　　—Michael Korda, author of Ike
　　“At long last, we have a biography of Sinatra worthy of the
man…a pop innovator whose influence remains incalculable, whose
art remains undiminished. James Kaplan tells this story with the
authority of a writer who inhabits his subject from deep inside.
The pages fly by on the wings of song.”
　　—Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams and
Warning Shadows