Frank: The Making of a Legend by James Kaplan | book review

James Kaplan's life of Frank Sinatra is so diligent and entertaining you'll forgive its wilder speculationsSince his death in 1998, Frank Sinatra has not lacked for biographers, and any serious student of the singer's life has at least 35 substantial texts to work with. So what brought novelist James Kaplan to Sinatra, whom he himself describes, with blithe inaccuracy, as perhaps "the most chronicled human being in modern history"? Apparently, writes Kaplan without irony, the fact that "I owed h...

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