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An amazing life. As a New Yorker brought up in the world of Broadway theater, the author, Burt Boyar, became a child radio actor earning $1000 a week in the late 1930's, early 40's, playing Archie on Archie Andrews, Billy Batson on Captain Marvel, Dexter Franklin on Corliss Archer, etc. etc. Then he became a caviar taster, a polo player, a widely syndicated Broadway columnist, close friend and biographer to Sammy Davis, Jr. with the worldwide Best Selling book, Yes I Can. Then, an intimate of the world's greatest tennis players, Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, etc. which brought him and...

New York City, the 1950s and 60s was the Happening Time, the Happening Place and the Happening People: millionaire playboys, debutantes, Hollywood starlets, press agents. A solid gold chain stopping the Nobodys from entering the legendary Stork Club where the Somebody's played, as they did at El Morocco, El Borracho, Billy Reed's Little Club and Armando's. Bill invited the best looking hookers to be his guests every night at the bar and everyone was happy and beautiful and life itself was glorious and glamorous.

She is a gorgeous, wealthy Texan who suffers a tragic loss of her child. Her name is America Harvey. She buries her grief by hard work, becoming a jet pilot, building a courrier service airline. Then, attending her best friend's wedding in Spain she meets the most glamorous man in the world. He is Alfonso, the Duke of Tarifa, a major Spanish banker with a wife and eight children, but it was a marriage of convenience so he is a free man and they fall deeply in love across a background of the Spanish Riviera, Paris, all of Europe. Alfonso's fortune and ttles go back to the year 800. We see him...

Why Me? is the self-portrait of one of the extraordinary men of our time, who became a figure of controversy because he dared to live his life not as a Negro but as a man. "I've got to be a star like another man has to breathe," write Sammy Davis. "I've got to get so big, so powerful, so famous that the day will come when they'll look at me and see a man, and then somewhere along the way they'll notice he's a Negro."

YES I CAN is the self-portrait of one of the extraordinary men of our time, who became a figure of controversy because he dared to live his life not as a Negro but as a man. "I've got to be a star like another man has to breathe," write Sammy Davis. "I've got to get so big, so powerful, so famous that the day will come when they'll look at me and see a man, and then somewhere along the way they'll notice he's a Negro." YES I CAN is: ..".one of the most candid, engrossing and important American autobiographies of our time," wrote the N.Y. Herald Tribune Book Editor and Critic Maurice Dolbier....