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Deconstructing Sammy - Matt Birkbeck - Bog

- Music, Money and Madness

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Adored by millions, Sammy Davis Jr. was considered an entertainment icon and a national treasure. But despite lifetime earnings that topped $50 million, Sammy died in 1990 near bankruptcy. Years later his once-vivacious wife, Altovise, heir to one of the greatest entertainment legacies of the twentieth century, was living in poverty. With nowhere else to turn, she asked a former federal prosecutor, Albert ?Sonny? Murray, to try to resolve Sammy's debts and restore his estate. For seven years Sonny probed Sammy's life and came to understand the tormented artist as a man of tragic complexity.Deconstructing Sammy is the extraordinary story of an international celebrity whose outsize talent couldn't save him from himself.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780061450679
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 280
  • Udgivet:
  • 8. oktober 2009
  • Størrelse:
  • 132x205x29 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 364 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 9. december 2024

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Adored by millions, Sammy Davis Jr. was considered an entertainment icon and a national treasure. But despite lifetime earnings that topped $50 million, Sammy died in 1990 near bankruptcy. Years later his once-vivacious wife, Altovise, heir to one of the greatest entertainment legacies of the twentieth century, was living in poverty. With nowhere else to turn, she asked a former federal prosecutor, Albert ?Sonny? Murray, to try to resolve Sammy's debts and restore his estate. For seven years Sonny probed Sammy's life and came to understand the tormented artist as a man of tragic complexity.Deconstructing Sammy is the extraordinary story of an international celebrity whose outsize talent couldn't save him from himself.

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