First published 2011
Barbara Sinatra opens her heart about the man she married after hearing his voice at a Missouri drive-in thirty years earlier. She reveals how Frank courted her for five tempestuous years while she raised her son nearly alone, working as a Vegas showgirl and fashion model after her marriage to Zeppo Marx ended. Barbara shows us Frank as both generous benefactor and jealous husband, the man who serenaded her nightly from concert stages around the world. She takes us inside their glittering social circle of presidents, royalty, and entertainment legends including Sammy Davis Jr., Princess Grace, Bob Dylan, and Ronald Reagan. Through intimate stories, Barbara paints Frank as witty and wicked, possessive yet devoted. She describes their twenty-plus years of marriage as they traveled globally and hosted famous friends. This memoir captures both the public spectacle of their showbiz union and the private passion that sustained their bond until Frank's death.
Genres: biography, 20th-century, autobiography, biography-memoir
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: celebrity-romance, rags-to-riches, second-chance
Setting: Las Vegas, Missouri
Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
388 pages · Hardcover · Crown Archetype