A book from the hand of Dave Marsh, one of the most respected and best known music critics of his own time, and he doesn't judge Elvis, not even in the seventies. The book is written with great respect and love for the subject, which is very evident during the last lines of the book. In asking if Elvis was a human ball of misery, Dave Marsh comes to the following conclusion; "Elvis was not a god or a king, he was more American, something more heroic. Elvis Presley was an explorer of vast new landscapes of dream and illusion. He was a man who refused to be told that the best of his dreams would not come true, who refused to be defined by anyone else's conceptions. This is the goal of democracy, the journey on which every prospective American hero sets out. That Elvis made so much of the journey on his own is reason enough to remember him with the honor and love we reserve for the bravest among us, Such man made the only maps we can trust" - end of quotation. This is the respect Elvis deserves. He was a major force in American culture, and just doesn't need to be penned down like Albert Goldman did. The book is filled with mostly black and white pictures, and available as hard- or soft cover.





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