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The Sinatra files : the secret FBI dossier by Kuntz, Tom; Kuntz, Phil is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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From Publishers Weekly Frank Sinatra, with his mob ties, his ardent New Deal politics and his friendship with John F. Kennedy, was a natural target for J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, which spied on countless citizens. The Bureau's secret 1,275-page dossier on the singer was released in 1998 in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. This compilation of excerpts, supplemented by other declassified documents and explanatory commentary, certainly shocks. Sinatra fans will be livid to learn how their idol was spied on, harassed, even smeared by the FBI over the years. Journalist brothers Tom Kuntz and Phil Kuntz (of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, respectively) present evidence that scandalmongering journalists fed the bureau unsubstantiated, damaging rumors that the FBI pursued; in exchange, the FBI occasionally doled out dirt on Sinatra to the press. Charting the crooner's metamorphosis from prominent supporter of left-leaning causes to conservative campaigner for Reagan and Nixon, this dossier reveals that for a year Hoover investigated Sinatra's alleged Communist affiliations, but came up empty-handed. The FBI documents provide many glimpses of Sinatra's associations
Who reads The Sinatra files : the secret FBI dossier?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kuntz, Tom; Kuntz, Phil
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307559746
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Music, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.27 / 5 (142 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
