Baby, Let's Play House

by Nash, Alanna

• ISBN13: 9780061699856
• ISBN10: 0061699853
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-02
• Publisher: It Books

Summary

Award-winning journalist Nash explores Elvis Presley's complex relationships with women, his sexual identity, and how both informed his art and his life.

Author Biography

Alanna Nash is a recipient of the Country Music Association Media Achievement Award and the Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism, and the author of seven books, including The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley (winner of the Belmont Award); Dolly: The Biography; and Elvis and the Memphis Mafia. Nash lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where she covered Elvis's funeral for the Courier-Journal.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xiii
ôMy Best Galö	p. 1
An Ideal Guy	p. 21
Blue Heartache	p. 43
Dixie's Delight	p. 63
ôYou Need to be Kissedö	p. 79
ôA Great, Big, Beautiful Hunk of Forbidden Fruitö	p. 99
Biloxi Bliss	p. 113
ôAn Earthquake in Progressö	p. 129
Love Times Three	p. 153
Hillbillies in Hollywood	p. 175
Showgirls and Shavers	p. 191
Twin Surprises	p. 207
ôThe Most Miserable Young Manö	p. 221
Nipper Dreams	p. 235
Private Presley	p. 249
ôWake Up, Mama, Wake Upö	p. 259
Fräulein Fallout	p. 273
House Full of Trouble	p. 285
Priscilla	p. 297
ôCrazyö	p. 321
Going Under	p. 341
ôA Little Happinessö	p. 359
Nungln, Thumper, and Bug	p. 373
Satyrs and Spirits	p. 393
ôYou Don't Really Love Me!ö	p. 411
Hitched!	p. 431
A Baby, A Babe, And Black Leather	p. 447
Sin City	p. 471
Girls, Guns, and the President	p. 485
ôA Prince from Another Planetö	p. 507
Buntin'	p. 523
ôWhere Does Love Go?ö	p. 539
Flickering White Light	p. 559
Breathe!	p. 581
Epilogue	p. 607
Acknowledgments	p. 611
Endnotes	p. 615
Bibliography	p. 659
Index	p. 663
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