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

Marcus, Greil

ISBN 10: 080506513X / ISBN 13: 9780805065138

Published by Henry Holt and Co., U.S.A., 2000

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"First Edition" stated with complete number line - 1st printing, 3 tiny drip stains to fore edge of textblock, dj shows slightest of wear - no tears, chips, creases and original price intact.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co., U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080506513X
• ISBN 13: 9780805065138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

From the critic who knows music and culture like no other, a fascinating look at two outsiders who epitomize America's fractured self-image

In June of 1992, when all polls showed 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 critics, was the first to name this as the moment that turned Clinton's campaign around--and to make sense of why.
In Double Trouble, drawing on pieces he published from 1992 to 2000, Marcus explores the remarkable and illuminating kinship between Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley. In a cultural landscape where ideals and choices are increasingly compromised and commodified, the constantly mutating representations of Clinton and Elvis embody the American struggle over purity and corruption, fear and desire. Focusing as well on Hillary Clinton, Nirvana, Sinéad O'Connor, Andy Warhol, Roger Clinton, and especially Bob Dylan, Marcus pursues the question of how culture is made and how, through culture, people remake themselves. The result is a unique and essential book about the final decade of the twentieth century.

About the Author

Greil Marcus is the author of Invisible Republic (0-8050-3393-9), Dead Elvis, Lipstick Traces, 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 will be teaching at Princeton and Berkeley in the Fall 2000.