The Boston Globe, October 8th, 1998
WHY SINATRA MATTERS By Pete Hamill Little, Brown, 185 pp., illustrated, $18 During the early '70s, Frank Sinatra considered writing his memoirs with Pete Hamill. It was a shrewd choice of collaborator. Who better than a top New York tabloid columnist to appreciate the singer who, as Hamill puts it, "defined the glamor of the urban night"? Hamill may have been two decades Sinatra's junior, and Irish rather than Italian. But there was an affinity between them: a couple of tough/tender, bridge-and-tunnel guys (Sinatra from Hoboken, Hamill from Brooklyn), high school dropouts who'd scrapped their ...
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