Why Sinatra Matters

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Frank Sinatra and Pete Hamill, as products of the same urban landscape, have both been credited with giving the American city a voice. In this widely acclaimed and bestselling appreciation, Hamill draws on his intimate experience of the man and the music to evoke the essence of Sinatra, illuminating the singer’s art and his legend from the point of view of a confidant and a fan.

“As succinct and laconically classy as its title.”

— Adam Woog, Seattle Times

“Hamill’s illuminations are considerable without ever stooping to facile psychologizing. … He does a better job of placing Sinatra’s saga in a social and political context than any of his biographers have. … Why Sinatra Matters is most valuable in its explication of how Sinatra came to formulate a musical style that was a sound track to urban American life.”

— Dan DeLuca, Philadelphia Inquirer

“A graceful reminiscence of Sinatra after hours serves as the frame for shrewd reflections on the singer’s art, his personality, his audience, and — most interesting — his ethnicity, a subject about which Hamill, against all odds, contrives to say fresh and persuasive things.”

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