book review

Tom Parker, pictured here in 1957 with 21-year-old Presley, said of the singer: 'He's like most other 21-year-old fellows... he tries to live right.'

Title: The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership That Rocked the Word

Author: Peter Guralnick

Genre: Biography

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Pages: 603

Colonel Tom Parker, the Dutch impresario, one-time carnival man and Elvis Presley’s long-time manager, operated in what he called the Wonderful World of Show Business. He also saw it as snow business. From reading Peter Guralnick’s soberly illuminating The Colonel and the King , one thing is clear: There was no show business like the Colonel’s snow business.

Snowing is the art of the bamboozle − somewhere between selling a

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