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Article: ELVIS LIVES! A mountain of books traces every aspect of Presley's life

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August 15, 1996
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Afraid you won't have the time or money to travel to Elvis Presley's Graceland home in Memphis for Friday's commemoration of the 19th anniversary of his death? That's all right, mama! Try visiting a library or bookstore, where shelves just groan with Presley volumes.

There is a new Presley cookbook, accounts of life with Elvis (chiefly wife Priscilla's biography, "Elvis and Me," but also versions by mistresses and hangers-on), works of fiction inspired by Elvis, parodies, books about Elvis impersonators and Peter Guralnik's award-winning "Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley," tracing his early years in the first of a two-part work.

Just as there is no accounting for taste, ...

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