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 enlarge | Authors: George Jacobs, William Stadiem
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 99982
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0060596740
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42164092
EAN: 9780060596743
ASIN: 0060596740
Publication Date: April 2004
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Amazing Document of Cultural History November 19, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I didn't have high expectations for this book. The British royal family has shown us that tell-alls by "valets" and the like leave much to be desired, but this book was a wonderful surprise. It serves not only as an unusual insight into an American icon -- Frank Sinatra -- but also a cultural history of a young black man, George Jacobs, coming of age in the 1950's and 1960's with a front row seat on some of the most important figures of our time from Joe Kennedy to Ava Gardner to Sammy Davis, Jr. I think this book gives provocative insight on our American history through the lens of race, gender and popular culture.
From Bedroom to Board Room, He Was Larger Than Life February 2, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra," by his valet of 15 years George Jacobs (whom Sinatra fired for dancing with Mia Farrow), is filled with enough vanity, insecurity, envy, racism, drinking, smoking, womanizing and deal-making for three lifetimes. Jacobs takes the reader into the "board room" and the bedroom to reveal intimate portraits of the supremely talented larger-than-life Chairman himself, the woman he never stopped loving (Ava Gardner), mobster associates like one-time Al Capone "wheel man" Sam Giancana, that pitiful plaything of the rich and famous, Marilyn Monroe, and the utterly vile Kennedy father (who was even "crueler about Jews than he was about blacks") and his charismatic, whore-mongering son (drinking, drugs and round-the-clock sex that had even the insatiable Sinatra panting).
If Ronald Reagan's motto was "Win one for the Gipper," JFK's (and Sinatra's) surely had to be "Win one for the zipper."
 redundant July 19, 2004
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
i expected a man that spent virtually 20 hours a day for 15 years with fs to have a little more insight than recounting how many broads he a)slept with b)wanted to sleep with c)could've slept with but didn't (not many) or d) compared to ava gardner. oh, and don't forget about how much he loved being "connected"...it's stated here about a thousand times. if you're a big fan of mr.s there's not much here you didn't already know...he was egotistic, shallow, insecure, rude, childish...and had a great voice. basically every trait needed to become a huge star. not that the author didn't love him..he did. this book won't make you feel any different about francis albert...i just expected less foolish, redundant gossip and a little more insight on things we didn't know about the man. by page 50 i was hoping for more than just mr.s' conquests....it never happened. do yourself a favor and stick to listening to the voice, instead of reading about him.
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