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Fortunate son: the life of Elvis Presley

By Presley , Charles Leonard , Elvis;Ponce de Leon

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Hill and Wang
ISBN
9780374707330, 9780809030422, 080903042X, 0374707332
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
848 kB (868054 bytes)
Edition
First paperback edition
Pages
(242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illust
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1935-1977;Rock musicians -- United States -- BiBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Entertainment & PerformElvis

Description

Elvis Presley was celebrity's perfect storm. His sole but substantial contribution was talent, a fact Charles L. Ponce de Leon is careful to demonstrate throughout his wonderfully contextual Fortunate Son. Even as the moments of lucidity necessary to exercise that talent grew rarer and rarer, Elvis proved his musical gifts right up to the end of his life. Beyond that, however, he was fortune's child. Fortunate Son succinctly traces out the larger shifts that repeatedly redefined the cultural landscape during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, using Elvis's life to present a brief history of American popular culture during these tumultuous decades.

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