This Book Is Your Inside Look at the Greatest Magazine Story Ever Written

The celebrity interview can be a fraught affair. While some stars are congenial with reporters, others are testy and untouchable. Frank Sinatra was of the latter variety. In 1965, when Esquire sent Gay Talese to write a profile on the crooner, he found his subject on the defensive: Sinatra was under the weather and unavailable. Unfazed, Talese would still pen one of American journalism’s most incisive celebrity portraits, investigating the singer’s inner circle to paint him in