By Michael Errigo

Let's start with this: The Chairman of the Board is and always will be a monument of cool, a distant icon who will live forever on another plateau of celebrity, one that is untouchable and could never be reached today. Such hyperbole comes easily when talking about Frank Sinatra. The man who would have turned 100 years old this year left what has to be one of the most impeccable musical legacies in history. He is adored by the older generation and is still surrounded by a shroud of intriguing mysticism to the younger.

It's only right that the most famous thing written about Ol' Blue Eyes was an article by a writer who couldn't speak to him. Gay Talese's "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" has no direct quotes from the then-aging legend; it simply paints a picture from afar. That's how America knows Sinatra: as a series of myths and stories and pieces of gossip.

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