The Kansas City Star:

The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, by Alanna Nash (394 pages; Simon & Schuster; $25). Anyone who plugs into pop culture even on the most periodic basis knows Elvis Presley, the late King of Rock 'n' Roll, was one strange duck--and troubled, too, what with drug abuse and whatnot. But Tom Parker, Elvis' Svengali, wasn't exactly normal, either. Alanna Nash, who has written for Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times, gets the goods on Parker's secretive nature, shady past and giant ego. --John Mark Eberhart


 

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