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

by Greil Marcus

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In June 1992, when all the polls showed that Bill Clinton didn't stand a chance, he went on the Arsenio Hall Show and played "Heartbreak Hotel" on the saxophone. The author - one of America's most insightful critics - named this as the moment that turned Clinton's presidential campaign around. In this book, Marcus traces the impact of Elvis Presley on the Clinton years. Both men were outsiders, "no-count" southerners, cast out of American society, embodying the most extreme fantasies of possibility and disruption, even as they reaped its greatest rewards. Focusing also on their respective followers - among them Nirvana, Hillary Clinton, Andy Warhol and especially Bob Dylan - Marcus pursues the question of how culture is made and how, through culture, people remake themselves.
  • ISBN10 080506513X
  • ISBN13 9780805065138
  • Publish Date 21 September 2000
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 22 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Henry Holt & Company Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English