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I heard an excellent memoir on This American Life [NPR] last night about Sinatra. They referenced this article. What particularly stuck out about him was his e
by lukeqsee 11y ago
I heard an excellent memoir on This American Life [NPR] last night about Sinatra. They referenced this article.
What particularly stuck out about him was his every-man-ness. He shook hands of presidents, mobsters (supposedly), and "normal" people. He touched every strata and maintained a class that let him stand apart from it all.
For those interested: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/574/sinatras-100th-birthday http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/574/s....
- ohjeez 11y agoAmong journalists, it's considered a classic.
- shadeless 11y agoInteresting, I also listened to a NPR podcast about Sinatra last night, but it was on Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/09/459116467/episode-668-frank-sinatras-mug http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/09/459116467/episo...
- yurisagalov 11y agoProbably because his birthday is this weekend :)
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- tomjakubowski 11y agoThis American Life is a PRX program (PRI until the last couple years), not NPR.