Sinatra’s Song
John Lahr on the singer who kept reinventing American music, in this Profile from 1997.
On the hidden fragility beneath Sinatra's swagger: "His bravado, his bigness, the size of him in public life—it's part of him. But underneath there is something quite—I don't want to say 'sensitive,' because that's an understatement—underneath there is a delicate, fragile boy."