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A candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra''s life told by his longtime manager and friend, Eliot Weisman.

By the time Weisman met Sinatra in 1976, he was already the Voice, a man who held sway over popular music and pop culture for forty years, who had risen to the greatest heights of fame and plumbed the depths of failure, all the while surviving with the trademark swagger that women pined for and men wanted to emulate. Passionate and generous on his best days, sullen and unpredictable on his worst, Sinatra invited Weisman into his inner circle, an honor that the budding celebrity manager never took for granted. Even when he was caught up in a legal net designed to snare Sinatra, Weisman went to prison rather than being coerced into telling prosecutors what they wanted to hear.

With Weisman''s help, Sinatra orchestrated in his final decades some of the most memorable moments of his career. There was the Duets album, which was S

The Way It Was

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    A Hardback by Eliot Weisman, Jennifer Valoppi

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      Publisher Little, Brown & Company
      Published 28 December 2017
      ISBN-13 9780316470087
      978-0316470087
      ISBN-10 0316470082
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra''s life told by his longtime manager and friend, Eliot Weisman.

      By the time Weisman met Sinatra in 1976, he was already the Voice, a man who held sway over popular music and pop culture for forty years, who had risen to the greatest heights of fame and plumbed the depths of failure, all the while surviving with the trademark swagger that women pined for and men wanted to emulate. Passionate and generous on his best days, sullen and unpredictable on his worst, Sinatra invited Weisman into his inner circle, an honor that the budding celebrity manager never took for granted. Even when he was caught up in a legal net designed to snare Sinatra, Weisman went to prison rather than being coerced into telling prosecutors what they wanted to hear.

      With Weisman''s help, Sinatra orchestrated in his final decades some of the most memorable moments of his career. There was the Duets album, which was S

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