Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

"Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without Aint, Ferrari without fuel-only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence." - Gay Talese
In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese set out for Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to write a major profile on Frank Sinatra. When he arrived, he found the singer and his vigilant entourage on the defensive: Sinatra was under the weather, not available, and not wilng to be interviewed.
Undeterred, Talese stayed, beeving Sinatra might recover and reconsider, and used the meantime to observe the star and to interview his friends, associates, family mbers, and hangers-on. Sinatra never did grant the one-on-one, but Talese’s tenacity Aid off: his profile Frank Sinatra Has a Cold went down in history as a tour de force of terary nonfiction and the advent of New Journasm.
In this illustrated edition, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold is pubshed with an introduction by Talese, reproductions of his manuscript Ages, and correspondence. Interwoven are photographs from the legendary lens of Phil Stern, the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over four decades, as well as from top photojournasts of the ’60s, including John yson, John Dominis, and Terry O’Neill. The photographs complent Talese’s character study, Ainting an incisive portrait of Sinatra in the recording studio, on location, out on the town, and with the eponymous cold, which reveals as much about a singar star persona as it does about the Hollywood machine.
"One of the greatest celeity portraits ever written." - GQ