Authors: Gay Talese
ISBN-13: 9780345467232, ISBN-10: 034546723X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: March 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Gay Talese is a journalist and international best-selling author whose works include The Bridge (Walker & Company 2003), The Kingdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father, Thy Neighbors Wife, and Unto the Sons. Currently at work on the follow-up to Unto the Sons, he lives in New York City and Ocean City, New Jersey.
"Fascinating . . . Poignant." The Wall Street Journal
In this extraordinary work of insight and interviews, bestselling author Gay Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Manhattan mobsters, Bowery bums, and many others fascinating men and women who define our country's spirit and lead us to an understanding of ourselves as a nation.