Frank by James Kaplan – review

By Victoria SegalPrefaced by a quotation from Francis Bacon ("There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"), Kaplan's account of Frank Sinatra's well-documented first four decades is an attempt to bring the singer to life on the page. While Kaplan never shrinks from Sinatra's "strangeness" – his petulance, selfishness and all-consuming ego – and is happy to touch on some scandal-sheet favourites (quoting Ava Gardner's notorious assessment of her husband's ph...

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