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Gr 5-Up A good introduction to the magic and mystique that was Elvis Presley and a true portrait of the mid-20th-century U.S. music scene. Denenberg also shows what music and culture were like before and after Elvis as the formerly rigid dividing line between white and black society slowly blurred. Without dwelling on The King's excesses (food and drugs), the author offers both sides of controversial stories ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Elvis Presley has been dead for nearly a quarter century, but Elvis the cultural icon is still going strong. Here, short, punchy chapters follow the entertainer from his supremely gifted youth to his lonely, dissolute end. The "death" in the subtitle has less to do with Presley's actual demise (relegated to just a few paragraphs of text) than to his long, public fall from grace and squandering of talent. While sometimes a little too casual ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More