Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in atriumphant new biography that includes many rarely seenphotographs. Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twenti?ethcentury—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notori?ous in equalmeasure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remainedan enigma. As Bob Spitz did with the Beatles, Tina Brown for Diana,and Peter Guralnick for Elvis, James Kaplan goes behind the legendand hype to bring alive a force that changed popular culture infundamental ways. Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict ofhis own personality. He also made the very act of listening to popmusic a more personal experience than it had ever been. In Frank:The Voice, Kaplan reveals how he did it, bringing deeper insightthan ever before to the complex psyche and tur?bulent life behindthat incomparable vocal instrument. We relive the years 1915 to1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the first timeSinatra’s journey
This first fully documented biography of SimonWiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliantcharacter study of a man whose life was part invention but whollydedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible fortheir crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never beforgotten. Like most Jews in Eastern Europe on the eve ofHitler’s invasion of Poland, twenty-four-year-old Simon Wiesenthaldid not grasp the nature of the Nazi threat. But six years later,when a skeletal Wiesenthal was liberated from the concentrationcamp at Mauthausen, he fully fathomed the crimes of the Nazis.Within days he had assembled a list of nearly 150 Nazi warcriminals, the first of dozens of such lists he would make over alifetime as a Nazi hunter. A hero in the eyes of many, Wiesenthalwas also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of the past, whenothers preferred to forget. For this new biography, rich in newsworthy revelations, historianand journalist Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthal’s
