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Elvis Presley  
Author: Leeza Gibbons
ISBN: 079102329X
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review

From School Library Journal
Gr 5-8-These pithy books about celebrity musicians fail to provide any real sense of why the early deaths of any of these performers was such a tragedy. If there is any unifying theme, it is the focus in each case on the subject's drug use and self-destructive behavior. None of the artists come across as particularly sympathetic characters. Unclear grammar and changes in tense are typical of the quality of writing found throughout. The books lack any documentation or source notes, and contain numerous unattributed quotations. All three volumes are illustrated with occasional color photographs that are sometimes only tangentially relevant. These titles are too short to provide any real meat for students doing reports, and are not detailed enough to provide anything of interest to young fans.-Tim Wadham, Dallas Public Library, TXCopyright 1998 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Card catalog description
Biography of the "King of Rock 'n' Roll" including his impoverished childhood, his success as a recording artist, and his untimely death in 1977.




Elvis Presley

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Since the mid-1950s, when rock 'n' roll era was born, thousands of stars have been worshiped by millions of fans. Yet the title king of rock 'n' roll belongs to just one man: Elvis Presley.

     



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