Elvis / by Albert Goldman.
| Author/creator | Goldman, Albert |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1981. |
| Description | x, 598 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. The king's palace, the king's pleasure -- 2. The view from the imperial suite -- 3. Redneck roots -- 4. The little family -- 5. Portrait of the artist as a young punk -- 6. Quartette -- 7. Hoot 'n' holler -- 8. Solar flair -- 9. The hillbilly cat -- 10. The flying Dutchman -- 11. Under new management -- 12. The nation's only atomic-powered singer -- 13. The early days of sexually inspired mass hysteria -- 14. Going commercial -- 15. The new Jimmy Dean -- 16. Starring vehicles -- 17. Boy-man -- 18. The last days of Elvis the pelvis -- 19. A deadly induction -- 20. A lonely little boy, 5,000 miles away -- 21. Teen angel -- 22. About face! -- 23. The fun years -- 24. Three sisters -- 25. The swami -- 26. Love and Marriage -- 27. The colonel's wedding -- 28. The singer special -- 29. Revival at Las Vegas -- 30. The president will see Mr. Presley -- 31. Death threats -- 32. A new kind of hit -- 33. Easy come, easy go! -- 34. So shall it be in the end -- 35. One last night of fun -- 36. Sixteen coaches long. |
| Abstract | The author has written the definitive biography of Elvis Presley--a biography of a star and a symbol, an American dream and an adolescent illusion, the story of an era of energy and excess. He portrays Presley as the archetypal superstar, a catalyst of American popular culture--glorified, condemned, and mythicized during his reign as king of the age of rock. After three years of research and over 600 interviews, the truth about the pop culture phenomenon of the century is told here for the first time in a book that combines astonishing disclosures with brilliant cultural commentary. The author dramatizes with a novelist's skill the rise and fall of Elvis Presley. He illuminates the man and the myth against a backdrop of Memphis and Vegas, down-home religion and pink Cadillacs, white gospel and rhythm and blues and the music that rocked. Here is the life and times--the schemes and scams, the money and power plays, the decadence and dissolution and the panoply of life as showbiz. This work has made obsolete the trendy books spawned by Presley's death. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Biographical note | Albert Goldman is best known for Ladies and Gentlemen--LENNY BRUCE!!, the best-selling account of the counterculture's greatest comic and social satirist. Mr. Goldman taught for twenty-three years in New York City, commencing at Columbia College and concluding at Columbia General Studies, where he held the rank of Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Albert Goldman has been the music critic for LIFE, Esquire, and The New Leader. He has contributed cultural journalism to The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Commonweal, New York, The Sunday Times, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Book World, High Times, and Atlantic Monthly. |
| LCCN | 81008130 |
| ISBN | 0070236577 |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML420.P96 G66 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |