|                          Deconstructing Sammy                              |
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 |                        Music, Money and Madness                            |
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 | DATE: 2013-01-31  SIZE: 6,80MB   DISKS: 02_______4,77MB      PAGES: 300    |
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 | PUBLISHER: HarperCollins                     GENRE: Biography              |
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 | AUTHOR: Matt Birkbeck                                                      |
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 | FORMAT: PDF    PROTECTION: DRM     EDITION:                                |
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 | URL: https://is_gd/hoHsZ5                                                   |
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 | LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9780061700187                                    |
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 : Sammy Davis Jr. lived a storied life. Adored by millions over a            :
 : six-decade-long career, he was considered an entertainment icon and a      :
 : national treasure. But despite lifetime earnings that topped $50 million,  :
 : Sammy died in 1990 near bankruptcy. His estate was declared insolvent, and :
 : there was no possibility of it ever using Sammy's name or likeness again.  :
 : It was as if Sammy had never existed.                                      :
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 : Years later his wife, Altovise, a once-vivacious woman and heir to one of  :
 : the greatest entertainment legacies of the twentieth century, was living in:
 : poverty, and with nowhere else to go, she turned to a former federal       :
 : prosecutor, Albert "Sonny" Murray, to make one last attempt to resolve     :
 : Sammy's debts, restore his estate, and revive his legacy. For seven years  :
 : Sonny probed Sammy's life to understand how someone of great notoriety and :
 : wealth could have lost everything, and in the process he came to understand:
 : Sammy as a man whose complexity makes for a riveting work of celebrity     :
 : biography as cultural history.                                             :
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 : Matt Birkbeck's serious work of investigative journalism unveils the       :
 : extraordinary story of an international celebrity at the center of a       :
 : confluence of entertainment, politics, and organized crime, and shows how  :
 : even Sammy's outsized talent couldn't save him from himself.               :