{"product_id":"2940014873239","title":"All or Nothing At All: A Life of Frank Sinatra","description":"This title has received a QED seal for quality in eBook design. It can now be read easily on screens both large and small.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1997:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clarke certainly knows his stuff. He is able to put Sinatra in his musical context in a way that no mere biographer could. He knows the history of jazz, of radio, of recording technology -- and how these impinged on Sinatra's career.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Daily Telegraph, London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Effectively conveys a sense of the time and place in which Sinatra was so important... helps readers not of that era understand why Sinatra meant so much to so many.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most objective view of Sinatra's extraordinary life... Clarke's astute and succinct appraisals of Sinatra's albums and live performances are the best thing about All Or Nothing At All.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Detroit Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clarke tells the story well... It is as much a cultural history of our time as it is the story of one artist's life.\"\u003cbr\u003e--New Orleans Times-Picayune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clarke has an uncanny ability to describe Sinatra's singing style and chronicle his musical maturation. Usually, that type of material is rendered in a dry way. But not here.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jazz Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book takes an honest, non-judgmental tone with the singer's life, but doesn't sugarcoat anything.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Boston Sunday Herald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How Sinatra got inside of us is the grail Clarke pursues. [He] shows Sinatra at the center of changes in the music business and as a representative of the postwar era. This thread alone is worth the price of the book...\"\u003cbr\u003e--Steve Schwartz at Classical.Net","brand":"Donald Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146205020400,"sku":"2940014873239","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014873239_p0.jpg?v=1763616546","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014873239","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}