Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill ISBN: 0-316-73886-7 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (22 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Why Sinatra Matters is a fine book.
Comment: Pete Hamill is a fine reporter who knew Frank Sinatra as a friend. Sinatra was an enigmatic, charismatic and complex singer of the American soul. Perhaps no singer in 20th century America popular song could get inside a lyric and make it his own like the great "ole blue eyes."
Hamill's opening chapter in which we sit beside Sinatra and his cronies in a Brooklyn bar in 1970 is like something out of Hemingway in its description of a man, era and city.
Hamill points out that it was Sinatra in music, Laguardia in politics and Joe Dimaggio in sports who raised the immigrant Italian ethnic group to greatness in insular, xenophobic America of the 1940s.
Sinatrta could be obnoxious and cruel but he could also be
generous and kind,
This book reminds me of the Penguin Lives series as it is a good starting place for anyone who wants to learn more about Sinatra, his women, his era and most importantly his music. The music will live forever in the American soul.
Sinatra did it his way and Hamill does a fine job of writing in this interesting little book. A good read to take on vacation or a long flight. I recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sinatra's Story is a Blow to the "Diversity" Movement
Comment: This book can be viewed in two ways:
1) As a straightforward biography of Sinatra
2) As a chronicle of the history of discrimination against Italian Americans, and the myths and half-truths that have been advanced in the name of "Diversity."
Pete Hamill does a great job of telling the story of Italian Americans though the triumphs and tragedies of Frank Sinatra's life.
Sinatra was a great supporter of civil rights for minorities, primarily because he had felt the sting of discrimination as an Italian American. Hamill explains that Sinatra always identified with the underdog. But Sinatra's life also stands for the principle that while one shouldn't kick someone when they're down, you should still defend yourself from being kicked.
This book is a great read, and provides further evidence that the premise for the "diversity" movement and affirmative action is a deceptive sham. Hamill documents the lynching of Italians in New Orleans and the epithets hurled at them even from the likes of American "heroes" such as Teddy Roosevelt. It's outrageous that some oppressed groups (Jews, Italians, Irish, eastern European "whites," , etc.) were redefined as oppressors during the American Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps this book will help hasten then end of affirmative action.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book, horrible book-on-tape
Comment: Do not buy the book on tape! Get it in hardcover or paperback.
This is a fine little book, but it's the first book on tape I have had to turn off because the narrator's voice was too grating (and I've listened to tons of books on tape). Had it been read by the author himself, certainly allowances could be made. Instead, the publisher went out to find a professional reader and chose someone who speaks in an harsh, barking monotone, one part Howard Cosell, one part Rain Man, one part the guy who does the Moviephone listings. When the voice first came on, reading the copyright information and other technical details, I assumed that, well, that's just the preliminaries, surely someone else will narrate the rest of the tape. Nope. Amazing.
I have switched to the print version, which is excellent.
 |
Title: The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin' by Bill Zehme ISBN: 0060931752 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
 |
Title: Mr. S : My Life with Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs, William Stadiem ISBN: 0060515163 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
 |
Title: Forever: A Novel by Pete Hamill ISBN: 0316341118 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 30 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
 |
Title: Loving Women by Pete Hamill ISBN: 0786016388 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
 |
Title: A Drinking Life: A Memoir by Pete Hamill ISBN: 0316341029 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
