Elvis and Gladys

English

ISBN: 031206344X

EAN: 9780312063443

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts

Publisher: St. Martins Press

Release Date: 07/01/1991

Synopsis: Who on the planet doesnt know that Elvis Presley gave electrifying performances and enthralled millions? Who doesnt know that he was the King of Rock n Roll? But who knows that the King himself lived in the thrall of one dominant person? This was Gladys Smith Presley, his protective, indulgent, beloved mother. Elvis and Gladys, one of the best researched and most acclaimed books on Elviss early life, celebrates the extraordinary role Gladys played in her sons formative years. Uncovering facts not seen by other biographers, Elvis and Gladys reconstructs for the first time the history of the mother and sons devoted relationship and reveals new information about Elvis -- his Cherokee ancestry, his boyhood obsession with comic books, and his early compulsion to rescue his family from poverty. For once, a legend is presented to us by the mind and heart of a literate, careful biographer who cares, wrote Liz Smith in the New York Daily News when Elvis and Gladys was originally published in 1985.

Elvis and Gladys

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Pages: 416