Elvis
by Albert Goldman
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Illuminates the man and the myth, the life and the times of the "King of the Age of Rock."Tags
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- Elvis Presley
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- Though democracy is ostensibly the opposite of monarchy, the mass culture that is American democracy has betrayed in every age a deep atavistic yearning for royalty.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Suddenly, you snap to the fact that Elvis ended his life not entirely defeated or demented but fighting to the last, with crack-brained audacity, to break free of his imprisoning image.
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