Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives - Brossura

Marcus, Greil

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312420412 ISBN 13: 9780312420413

Casa editrice: Picador, 2001

Riassunto

From the great cultural and music critic Greil Marcus a collection of pieces in which he explores the remarkable and illuminating kinship between two Southern outsiders, Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley. Focusing as well on Hilary Clinton, Nirvana, Sinead

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L'autore:

Greil Marcus is the author of Dead Elvis; Lipstick Traces; The Old, Weird America; and Mystery Train. His pieces have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Artforum, Interview, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Esquire. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Product Description:

In June of 1992, when all the polls showed that Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall show, put on dark glasses, and blew "Heartbreak Hotel." Greil Marcus, one of America's most imaginative and insightful popular culture critics, was the first to name this as the moment that turned Clinton's campaign around—and to make sense of why. "Double Trouble" draws on articles Marcus published from 1992 to 2000 to explore the remarkable and illuminating kinship between Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley—and, moreover, to explore how culture is made and shared in today's America and how, through culture, people remake themselves. "Double Trouble" is a unique and essential book about the final years of the twentieth century. This edition also includes a new essay Marcus wrote just before the 2000 presidential election: an eerily prescient piece that looks forward to two very different futures for ex-President Bill Clinton.

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312420412
• ISBN 13: 9780312420413
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288