Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr.

By Sammy Davis Jr., Jane Boyar, Burt Boyar

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Yes I Can (1965) is the autobiography of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., written with Jane and Burt Boyar. Davis describes going on stage as a small child with his father's vaudeville act, the racism he met in the army and on the road, his rise as a singer and dancer, the car crash in which he lost an eye, his conversion to Judaism and his friendship with Frank Sinatra. He writes openly about fame, money and being a Black star in segregated America.

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• Ryan Holiday: “In the last few weeks I read biographies or memoirs of: Fidel Castro, Toussaint Louverture, PT Barnum, Martin Luther, Langston Hughes, Arnold Rothstein, Wyatt Earp, George Washington, Seneca, Sammy Davis Jr, ... Da Vinci, ... Olaudah Equiano, and Joe Biden.”