'I wanted to elevate journalism': Gay Talese, the writer who nailed Frank Sinatra

'Frank Sinatra Has a Cold’, Gay Talese’s 15,000-word study of the singer at the height of his fame, which was published in Esquire magazine in April 1966, is perhaps the most famous magazine story in American journalism, and there is some irony in the fact that Talese had no great desire to write …