Fresh Air, Shawn Levy, Tom and Phil Kuntz

De: Terry Gross

Narrado por: Terry Gross

Remembering Frank Sinatra on this edition of Fresh Air. Shawn Levy is the author of Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey & the Last Great Showbiz Party. It's about the circle of showbiz pals who played and later performed together. It included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Levy is also the author of the biography, King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis. Editor Tom Kuntz and reporter Phil Kuntz's book The Sinatra Files: The Life of an American Icon Under Government Surveillance excerpts and analyzes portions of the FBI's massive file on Frank Sinatra. The file is 1,275 pages long and was begun in the mid 1940s and lasted until 1972. Tom Kuntz is the editor of Word for Word, a column in The New York Times. Phil Kuntz is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal. (Original Broadcast Dates: August 19, 1998 and December 7, 2001)

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