Politics overlaps with showbiz and organised crime much more than it ought to, but the similarities are undeniable. Each profession involves gaining and wielding at least two of the holy triptych of fame, money and power.
Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia rattles through the scarcely believable tale of how the US president, the world’s favourite singer and some particularly nasty gangsters helped each other to succeed in the rotten chaos of the US after the second world war. Of course, it ends tragically for more than one of the players. John F Kennedy is assassinated, but Frank Sinatra doesn’t get off scot-free. He had fame and money, but when he mixed it with people who had power, they crushed him.
