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| Introduction | xiii | |
| Part 1 | The Elvis Election: 1992-1993 | |
| A Moral Crisis | 5 | |
| Advice to Bill Clinton | 9 | |
| How the Heartaches Began | 12 | |
| Images of the Present Day | 16 | |
| The Roger Clinton Experience | 34 | |
| Flashback: The Music Playing Outside Bill Clinton's Oxford Dorm Room | 37 | |
| Pop Music Saves the World Again | 41 | |
| Artist of the Year | 44 | |
| Bill Clinton: Hound Dog or Teddy Bear? | 46 | |
| Part 2 | Traces of Extremist Culture in a Time of Broken Politics: 1993-1997 | |
| Bob Dylan Argues with Himself at the Inauguration | 55 | |
| The Summer of Love Generation Reaches the White House. So Do Their Kids | 58 | |
| More Thoughts on the White House Playlist | 62 | |
| But Not Life | 66 | |
| What's New in the Cemetery | 70 | |
| Mystery Train After Thirty-nine Years | 74 | |
| Elvis and Hermes, Together Again at Last | 77 | |
| Clinton Places Behind Juliette Lewis, Ahead of Prince in New Poll; McCarthyism Tops "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" | 83 | |
| Traces of Extremist Culture in a Time of Broken Politics | 87 | |
| Kurt Cobain 1967-1994 | 91 | |
| Nirvana After the 1994 Congressional Elections | 96 | |
| Gladys Love Smith and Vernon Elvis Presley | 100 | |
| Bob Dylan After the 1994 Congressional Elections | 104 | |
| Nostalgia | 108 | |
| Mario Savio 1943-1996 | 112 | |
| Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997 | 116 | |
| Tell-Tale Heart | 119 | |
| August 16, 1997: The Drifter | 122 | |
| August 16, 1997: The Farmer | 129 | |
| A Map You Can Throw Away | 132 | |
| The Story Untold | 138 | |
| Part 3 | The Last Laugh: 1998-2000 | |
| J. T. Walsh | 149 | |
| Heaven's Gate | 155 | |
| America at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century | 159 | |
| Pennsylvania at the End of the Twentieth Century | 163 | |
| The Last Laugh | 170 | |
| Demand the Impossible | 192 | |
| Artist of the Year | 198 | |
| Center of the Universe | 201 | |
| Pleasantville | 206 | |
| A Look Back | 211 | |
| The Man from Nowhere | 217 | |
| Works Cited | 231 | |
| Acknowledgments | 235 | |
| Index | 239 |
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J Nelson
reviewed Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives on June 07, 2007
Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives
I hadn't read this since the hardcover was brand new, which means I hadn't read it since Clinton was president, which meant yikes, the last piece, added to the paperback, in which Marcus imagines two different outcomes to the 2000 election and the ensuing presidencies, was a hell of a downer.
It also meant that this turned out to be a crazy trip down memory lane, particularly as the book moved toward the impeachment years. In much the way visiting the Clinton Library allowed for the strange experience of seeing my lifetime packaged as history, this book was a constant flashback to my adolescence. It's not a period I'm ever particularly eager to relive, but I suppose it's useful to be reminded of the series of events that poisoned me against the Republican Party, and to see how little their tactics have changed.
Along the way, the cameos from the non-Clintons and non-Presleys, particularly Kurt Cobain and Bob Dylan, are a real treat.
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Add Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives, In June of 1992, when all the polls showed that Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall show, put on dark glasses, and blew Heartbreak Hotel. Greil Marcus, one of America's most imaginative and insightful popular c, Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives to your collection on WonderClub |
