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Or an underrated, highly amiable, top-flight singer and actor who was loyal to his pals and remained friends with wives even after divorce, and who much preferred an evening at home watching [TV] than a night out drinking with the boys?" -- from the intro

Spoiler alert: the reading audience will find out that actor/singer Dean Martin was perhaps equal parts of both of the above descriptions in author Schoell's Martini Man.

Raised in an Ohio industrial town just after WWI, the speakeasy blackjack dealer and amateur boxer found (somewhat unlikely) fame by becoming a crooner in the style of Bing Crosby and then as one-half of a nightclub comedy duo with Jerry Lewis in the mid-1940's.

Although it seemed like Martin's career would