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Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Showbiz Party ISBN: 1841150010 ISBN13: 9781841150017 Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Showbiz Party By: Shawn Levy Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd Format: Paperback Our Price: 6.56 Discount: 27% RRP: 8.99

First biography of The Rat Pack -- Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop et al -- the original Swingers. Brilliant and beautifully written story of their rise and fall, and their connections with the Kennedys and the Mafia, which will appeal to fans of Swingers!, Goodfellas and Nick Tosches' Dino. They alit in Las Vegas for a month to make a movie and play a historic nightclub gig they called the Summit; they hit Miami, the Utah desert, Palm Springs, Chicago, Atlantic City, Beverly Hills, Hollywood back lots, illegal gambling dens, saloons, yachts, private jets, the White House itself. It was sauce and vinegar and eau de cologne and sour mash whiskey and gin and smoke and perfume and silk and neon and skinny lapels and tail fins and rockets to the sky. It was swinging and sighing and being a sharpie, it was cutting a figure and digging a scene. It was Frank and Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin and Peter Lawford for a while and Joey Bishop when they asked him and Jack Kennedy and Sam Giancana and tables full of cronies and who knew how many broads. It was the ultimate spasm of traditional showbiz -- both the last and the most of its kind. It was the Rat Pack. It was beautiful. Rat Pack Confidential -- you're never far from a cocktail, a swingin' affair and a fist-fight.


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Orginally published in 1998. A biography of the Rat Pack who included Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Levy tells the story of the rise and fall of the Rat Pack and their connections with the Kennedys and the Mafia. Includes black and white illustrations.

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