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Sammy Davis, Jr was one of the most recognisable showbiz entertainers of the twentieth century. But his story was also one of contradiction and compromise: a black man trying to make his name as a star during a time of racial prejudice and even segregation, Sammy Davis, Jr never came to terms with the complexities of his situation, as Wil Haygood's comprehensive new biography shows. He endured patronising humiliation from his fellow Rat Pack members; he marched with Martin Luther King while, notoriously, cozying up to President Nixon and conducting numerous affairs with white women. Above all, he made his name as a vaudevillian entertainer by arguably accepting the role of honorary white man. With the new stage show, Rat Pack Confidential, now playing in the West End, this new book offers the definitive portrait of the Rat Pack's most interesting and maverick member.
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Haygood writes with such headlong energy as well as novelistic insight and compassion about this tortured song-and-dance man. -- Christopher Silvester, Sunday Times 1 August 2004
One of the best, and sometimes one of the saddest, show-business biographies I have ever read. [A] sad, illuminating book. -- Charles Spencer, Sunday Telegraph, 15 August 2004
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One of the best, and sometimes one of the saddest, show-business biographies I have ever read. [A] sad, illuminating book. -- Charles Spencer, Sunday Telegraph, 15 August 2004
Wil Haygood is a staff writer on the Style section of the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Haygoods of Columbus, Two on the River and a biography of the black politician Adam Clayton Powell.
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