Full name: Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams

Author: Nick Tosches Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Music, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385334297 038533429X

From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster  town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the  famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he  called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand,  guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He  rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and  Hollywood's biggest stars. He was one of America's  favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him.  Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the  image--the dark side of the American dream. It's a  wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex,  ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast,  and without  apologies. Similar books: Hellfire by Nick Tosches Frank by James Kaplan Madonna by J. Randy Taraborrelli Where Dead Voices Gather by Nick Tosches Call Her Miss Ross by J. Randy Taraborrelli The Man Called CASH by Steve Turner Memories Are Made of This by Deana Martin Sinatra by Anthony Summers Maria Callas by Arianna Stassinopoulos Courtney Love by Poppy Z. Brite Divided Soul by David Ritz Transformer by Victor Bockris Ramblin' Man by Ed Cray Shakey by Jimmy McDonough Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin This Is Gonna Hurt by Nikki Sixx White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister Light and Shade by Brad Tolinski