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Abacus Careless Love: Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Until Peter Guralnick came out with <I>Last Train to Memphis</I> in 1994, most biographies of Elvis Presley--especially those written by people with varying degrees of access to his inner circle--were filled with starstruck adulation, and those that weren't in awe of their subject invariably went out of their way to take potshots at the rock & roll pioneer (with Albert Goldman's 1981 Elvis reaching now-legendary levels of bile and condescension). Guralnick's exploration of Elvis's childhood and rise to fame was notable for its factual rigorousness and its intimate appreciation of Presley's musical agenda. <P> Picking up where the first volume left off, Guralnick sees Elvis through his tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Germany, where he first met--and was captivated by--a 14-year-old girl named Priscilla Beaulieu. We may think we know the story from this point: the return to America, the near-decade of B-movies, eventual marriage to Priscilla, a brief flash of glory with the '68 comeback, and the surrealism of fat Elvis decked out in bejewelled white jumpsuits, culminating in a bathroom death scene. <P> While that summary isn't exactly false, Guralnick's account shows what little perspective we've had on Elvis's life until now; how a gross caricature of the final years has come to stand for the life itself. He treats every aspect of Presley's life--including forays into spiritual mysticism and the growing dependency on prescription drugs--with dignity and critical distance. More importantly, <I>Careless Love</I> continues to show that Guralnick gets what Presley was trying to do as an artist: I see him in the same way that I think he saw himself from the start, the introduction states, as someone whose ambition it was to encompass every strand of the American musical tradition. From rock to blues to country to gospel, Guralnick discusses how, at his finest moments, Elvis was able to fulfill that dream. - -<I>Ron Hogan</I>
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Oxford University Press The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America C.1750-1783
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Little, Brown Careless Love: the Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Until Peter Guralnick came out with <I>Last Train to Memphis</I> in 1994, most biographies of Elvis Presley--especially those written by people with varying degrees of access to his inner circle--were filled with starstruck adulation, and those that weren't in awe of their subject invariably went out of their way to take potshots at the rock & roll pioneer (with Albert Goldman's 1981 Elvis reaching now-legendary levels of bile and condescension). Guralnick's exploration of Elvis's childhood and rise to fame was notable for its factual rigorousness and its intimate appreciation of Presley's musical agenda. <P> Picking up where the first volume left off, Guralnick sees Elvis through his tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Germany, where he first met--and was captivated by--a 14-year-old girl named Priscilla Beaulieu. We may think we know the story from this point: the return to America, the near-decade of B-movies, eventual marriage to Priscilla, a brief flash of glory with the '68 comeback, and the surrealism of fat Elvis decked out in bejewelled white jumpsuits, culminating in a bathroom death scene. <P> While that summary isn't exactly false, Guralnick's account shows what little perspective we've had on Elvis's life until now; how a gross caricature of the final years has come to stand for the life itself. He treats every aspect of Presley's life--including forays into spiritual mysticism and the growing dependency on prescription drugs--with dignity and critical distance. More importantly, <I>Careless Love</I> continues to show that Guralnick gets what Presley was trying to do as an artist: I see him in the same way that I think he saw himself from the start, the introduction states, as someone whose ambition it was to encompass every strand of the American musical tradition. From rock to blues to country to gospel, Guralnick discusses how, at his finest moments, Elvis was able to fulfill that dream. - -<I>Ron Hogan</I>
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Amana Books Inc.,U.S. The Unmaking of Palestine
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Penguin Books Ltd Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency
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Zed Books Ltd Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire
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Amsterdam University Press,Netherlands The Making and Unmaking of an Industrial Working Class: Sliding Down to the Bottom of the Labour Hierarchy in Ahmedabad, Inda
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Pluto Press The West Bank Wall: Unmaking Palestine
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Oxford Paperbacks The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
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Oxford University Press Inc, USA Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents
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Oxford University Press Inc, USA Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
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Little, Brown Raj: Making and Unmaking of British India
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Ballantine Books Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst
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Luna Books Song of Unmaking
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Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre
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Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital
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University of California Press The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
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Princeton University Press Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History)
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Princeton University Press When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico (In-Formation S.)
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum: The Mccord, 1921-1996
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State University of New York Press Visionary Worlds: The Making and Unmaking of Reality (SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)
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Cornell University Press The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies After Socialism (Culture & Society After Socialism S.)
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University of Toronto Press Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History
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Metropolitan Books Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire [The American Empire Project] (American Empire Project)
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Times Books Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law
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Duke University Press The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
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Chicago Review Press Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King
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