The Rat Pack | Volume 1: The Foundations of Cool

This volume traces the early individual careers of the five men—Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop—before they became a collective force. It explores Sinatra's meteoric rise and devastating fall in the late 1940s, Dean Martin’s early years as a "crooner" and his partnership with Jerry Lewis, and the prodigious talent of Sammy Davis Jr. as he fought against the era's racial barriers.