Fortunate Son
THE LIFE OF ELVIS PRESLEY
Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................3
1. FROM TUPELO TO MEMPHIS........................11
2. THE HILLBILLY CAT.............................39
3. ELVIS THE PELVIS..............................66
4. THE NEXT JAMES BEAN?..........................96
5. MATINEE IDOL..................................122
6. THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL.....................151
7. LIVING LEGEND.................................181
Notes............................................213
Acknowledgments..................................227
Index............................................231
Chapter One
From Tupelo to Memphis
FIRST SETTLED BY WHITES in the 1830s, the wooded hill country of northeastern
Mississippi was a magnet for aspiring yeoman farmers and their
families for most of the nineteenth century. Boasting rich black soil,
abundant stores of shortleaf pine and hardwoods, fish-laden streams,
and plenty of game, it was an ideal locale for subsistence farming. Before
the Civil War, ... read full excerpt from Fortunate Son ebook
