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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. No dustcover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The flickering television images of Elvis Presley–the rough-and- ready Hillbilly Cat swiveling provocatively on The Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s the lean-and-leathered god of The Singer Special of the ’60s and the grotesquely puffy jumpsuited carica- ture from his last live concerts of the ’70s-are so ingrained in the American consciousness as almost to be snapshots from the family album. Indeed it is hard to find a more perfect symbol of all that is glorious and horrific about America-about the American dream turned nightmare-than Elvis Aaron Presley who rose from wrenching Mississippi poverty to nearly unfathomable wealth as the high priest of pop. For his trouble this American original changed not only the course of popular music but American thought only to die at forty-two discouraged disillusioned and all tubbed out on drugs cheeseburgers and deep-fried peanut Isomatic comeuppance