A key member of Sinatra's inner circle, Tony "The Clam" Consiglio shared these accounts of being the iconic singer's right-hand man, confidant, and friend to coauthor Douskey over many years. Now he recounts them for today's fans. Narrator Norman Dietz provides an emphatic New Jersey Italian-American delivery--perhaps too much so. While they're all here--Sinatra's salad days, marriages, remarkable talent, and death--the stories are familiar to most. There's little new insight or context and an overabundance of detail, such as "Sinatra answered the yellow kitchen wall phone answering a call from his son's kidnappers." Overall, the book's poor writing and organization fail the believability test, and the audiobook does not make up for its shortcomings. W.A.G. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2013]
Trade Ed. Tantor Media 2012
CD ISBN 9781452610535 $39.99 Ten CDs
MP3-CD ISBN 9781452660530 $29.99 One MP3-CDs
DD ISBN multiple sources
Library Ed. Tantor Media 2012
CD ISBN 9781452640532 $83.99 Ten CDs
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