Double Trouble - Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (Paperback, 1st Picador USA pbk. ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Picador USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2001
First published:	September 2001
Authors:	Greil Marcus
Dimensions:	212 x 144 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	272
Edition:	1st Picador USA pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-42041-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-312-42041-2
Barcode:	9780312420413

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