The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'
by Bill Zehme
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In The Way You Wear Your Hat, author Bill Zehme presents a masterful assembly of the most personal details and gorgeous minutiae of Frank Sinatra's way of livingmatters of the heart and heartbreak, friendship and leadership, drinking and cavorting, brawling and wooing, tuxedos and snap-brimsall crafted from rare interviews with Sinatra himself as well as many other intimates, including Tony Bennett, Don Rickles, Angie Dickinson, Tony Curtis, and Robert Wagner, in addition to daughters Nancy show more and Tina Sinatra. Capturing the timeless romance and classic style of the fifties and the loose sixties, The Way You Wear Your Hat is a stunning exploration of the Sinatra mystique. show lessTags
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Stories about Frank Sinatra you may not have heard; excellent read for fans of Sinatra and the Rat Pack
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Bill Zehme is the author of the New York Times bestseller THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT: FRANK SINATRA AND THE LOST ART OF LIVIN'. Recognized among the nation's more unique interpreters of popular culture, he is a longtime writer at large for Esquire, and his impressionistic profiles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Vanity Fair. During the show more six years of research for LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, he served as supervising producer of the network television retrospective Taxi: A Celebration and consulting producer of the NBC-TV special A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman. He lives in Chicago. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1997
- Dedication
- For CLS and FAS
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- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 782.42164 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal Music, Singing Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Western popular songs
- LCC
- ML420 .S565 .Z44 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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- Languages
- English, Portuguese, Spanish
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