![]() ![]() Cobbled together, these elements led her along Presley's long, winding trail from babes to baby sitters as his life spiraled into sad decline. ![]() ![]() Thus armed with what she all too aptly calls "an oral history of some of the women in Elvis's life," Nash began padding her story with three kinds of material: her own legitimate interviews (some with women still pining for Elvis 50 years after their fateful encounters), secondhand gossip (from self-serving memoirs and fan publications) and psychobabble. Nash acknowledges that she initially wrote a women-oriented article for Ladies' Home Journal and then decided to expand it. So it is only a little bit worrisome to see her identified in the jacket copy for her new book as "the first journalist to see Elvis Presley in his casket." Tom Parker, as well as "Elvis and the Memphis Mafia," she sounds like someone well connected in the Presley world. As the author of "The Colonel," about the carny tricks of Presley's famously Machiavellian manager, Col. Also, she approaches this subject with a running start. Since Nash's book is studiously annotated and longer than many biographies of American presidents, there is reason to think she may have done some serious work here. ![]()
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