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"A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly. When the local kingpin demands to be told what the Americans are saying, Elvis himself delivers an even more stinging parting shot - and who has to translate that?"--Publisher's website.

"Days before his death, Elvis Presley saw a chance to earn the U.S. Marshal's badge President Nixon had given him back in 1970 in the Oval Office, where, in his bejeweled leisure suit, the drug-addicted Elvis had sworn himself to law and order. Spying a fight breaking out between two men and a gas station attendant, an overweight Elvis did his best to leap out of his limo and strike a karate pose. He was met with stunned disbelief and requests for...

A collection of seventeen essays that examine Elvis Presley's life, career, and influences, as well as his impact on music and on U.S. culture. Also includes a chronology, a selected bibliography, discussion questions, and a collection of primary source documents.

"From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture." "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed,...

"In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed, American society--in the second half of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

Las Vegas is where so many of the key moments of Elvis' life took place: from his first appearance there at age twenty-one, to his marriage to Priscilla at the Aladdin Hotel, to the annual "Elvis Festivals" of the 1970s, Vegas was his home away from Graceland. These photographs constitute a fan's chronicle of the original American superstar. Personal, poignant, and atmospheric, they are much more than a gathering of studio or magazine images--in fact,...

Many would claim that the music Elvis Presley made towards the end of his life paled in comparison with that he made in the 1950s. But, as is often the case in the King's career, re-appraisal of those later performances and recordings reveal a passion and vitality as charged in "The Wonder of You," and "Burning Love," as existed in "Heartbreak Hotel," and "Blue Suede Shoes."

Explores the connection between the performer's career and his Southern roots.

Million dollar quartet' is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.

"In Race, Rock, and Elvis, Michael T. Bertrand contends that popular music, specifically Elvis Presley's brand of rock 'n' roll, helped revise racial attitudes after World War II. Observing that youthful fans of rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and other black-inspired music seemed more inclined than their segregationist elders to ignore the color line, Bertrand links popular music with a more general relaxation, led by white youths, of the historical...