James Kaplan Books
Frank
By James Kaplan
Who was Frank Sinatra? This book delves more deeply into who he really was than any previous book about him. It relives the years 1915 to 1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the first...
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Dean & me
By Jerry Lewis
They were the unlikeliest of pairs--a handsome Italian crooner and a skinny Jewish monkey. The moment they got together, something clicked--and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as b...
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Dean and Me
In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin. They were the unlikeliest of pairs&mdash...
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Frank
By James Kaplan
Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remain...
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Two guys from Verona
By James Kaplan
Will and Joel are two forty-three-year-olds in a New Jersey suburb on the verge of the millennium. Will is a married, middle-class soul in torment; Joel is a mad closet genius who sees the world as...
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Paul McCartney
By James Kaplan
Profiles the legendary songwriter and performer in words and pictures.
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The Rat Pack
By James Kaplan
Features a retrospective on the famous group of entertainers, including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.
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