“He seemed now to be also the embodiment of the fully emancipated male, perhaps the only one in America, the man who can do anything he wants, anything, can do it because he has money, the energy, and no apparent guilt. … The man who had everything, lost it, then got it back, letting nothing stand in his way, doing what few men can do.”

— Gay Talese , Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Esquire, April 1966)

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American writer 1932

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