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| Title Statement | The Colonel and the king: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the partnership that rocked the world / Peter Guralnick. |
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| Author | Guralnick, Peter |
| Publication | New York: Little, Brown and Company,2025. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | xix, 603 pages |
| ISBN | 9780316399449 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07977133 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary | "In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker heard that an unknown teenager from Memphis had just drawn a crowd of more than 800 people to a Texas schoolhouse and headed south to investigate. The ensuing bond between Elvis Presley and the Colonel proved impossible for observers to understand -- not during their lifetimes, and not in the decades since. It was a long-standing, deeply committed relationship, founded on mutual admiration and support. Featuring troves of never-before-seen correspondence from the Colonel's own archives, The Colonel and the King provides a unique perspective on not one but two American originals"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Concert agents--Biography--United States |
| Impresarios--Biography--United States | |
| Singers--Biography--United States | |
| By Name | Presley, Elvis,1935-1977 |
| Parker, Tom,1909 June 26-1997 | |
| By Genre | Biographies |
| Personal narratives | |
