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Bill Zehme’s *The Way You Wear Your Hat* is a nonfiction biography of Frank Sinatra. The book is built from rare interviews with Sinatra himself and with a range of intimates, including Tony Bennett, Don Rickles, Angie Dickinson, Tony Curtis, Robert Wagner, and Sinatra’s daughters Nancy and Tina. Illustrated with many photographs, the volume explores Sinatra’s personal life and relationships, his fashion sense, and his impact on popular music and culture during the 1950s and 1960s.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Celebrity Biography
Authors: Bill Zehme
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