Elvis and Nixon
- List Price: $22.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
Description:
The weekend before Christmas 1970, Elvis Presley escaped his handlers, stormed out of Graceland, and flew back and forth across the country for days in a drug-addled haze. He ended up in Washington, D.C., where he begged for, and received, an audience with President Nixon. In one of the most incongruous of all pop culture moments, Elvis and Nixon posed for pictures in the Oval Office, where the president presented Elvis with, of all things, an FBI special narcotics agent's badge.
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Around this actual event Jonathan Lowy weaves a remarkable tale of America in the Vietnam era, brought to life by a cast of vivid and eccentric characters, as well as a somewhat more amorphous character, the unique, comic, tragic, naive, paranoid, and altogether surreal spirit of that time.
Darkly funny and poignant, irreverent and sympathetic, Elvis and Nixon is an unforgettable trip back to a not-too-distant but truly lost time.
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