Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob, and The Summit

©2020 Richard A. Lertzman and Lon Davis

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Prestige Press, Cleveland, Ohio

Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data:

Deconstructing the Rat Pack / By Richard A. Lertzman with Lon Davis

ISBN 978-1-09834-161-9
eISBN 978-1-0983419-9-2

Front cover illustration: (left to right) Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Joey Bishop in a publicity photograph for Ocean’s 11 (Warner Bros., 1960). Photo by Sid Avery.

Back cover illustration: The iconic photo of the Rat Pack members standing beneath the Sands’ marquee, 1960.