The Way It Was
My Life with Frank Sinatra
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نقد و بررسی
October 15, 2017
The first major release about Frank Sinatra since the centenary of his birth in 2015 is also one of the few books to focus on the last 20 years of his life. Weisman managed Sinatra through the waning days of his career as a performer, helped settle financial struggles between Frank's fourth wife and his children, and was instrumental in the creation of his most financially successful--and final--recordings, Duets and Duets II. This title is wisely presented as a series of brief and engaging chapters, each one a revealing anecdote, that when strung together paint a behind-the-scenes portrait of Sinatra that is clearly a loving yet honest tribute. This is also one of the few Sinatra titles by a close friend and associate, yet Weisman doesn't shy away from sharing more than a few difficult moments, nor does he lionize a man he clearly adored. VERDICT Filling a major gap in Sinatra biography, this is an entertaining, intimate, and well-written look at the final years of one of our greatest entertainers.--Peter Thornell, Hingham P.L., MA
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
October 23, 2017
In pedestrian prose, Weisman, Sinatra’s manager from the late 1970s and the executor of Sinatra’s estate, piles story upon story as he tells his own tale of his life with Sinatra and Sinatra’s family and friends. Weisman is clearly enamored of his boss, and he’s candid about Sinatra making his career: “If you had Sinatra as a friend, you didn’t need much else in life.” Weisman’s loyalty to Sinatra involved doing time for bank fraud, despite his claimed innocence, rather than implicating his client, and he emerged from prison with a new vision for the management of his clients; in his concern for their long-term financial well-being, he worked hard at marketing, promoting, and selling their shows so that “everyone left me better off than when they started.” Weisman acknowledges Sinatra’s mercurial nature, revealing that it grew out of the singer’s bouts of depression. He praises Sinatra’s work ethic, his commitment to his fans, and his ability to deliver a triple platinum album, Duets, toward the end of his career. While Weisman’s story offers few new insights about Sinatra, he does provide a glimpse into the challenging life of a manager.
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