Elvis and Nixon A Novel【電子書籍】[ Jonathan Lowy ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A darkly comic, fictional trip through 1970s Americana with Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley riding shotgun.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞On December 21st, 1970 a drug-addled Elvis Presley showed up unannounced at the entrance gate of the White House with a handwritten request to meet with President Nixon. Elvis lamented the Beatles as a “real force for anti-American spirit” and assured the commander-in-chief, “I’m on your side.” With aides watching and flashbulbs popping, Nixon presented Elvis with an FBI Special Narcotics Agent badge; an ecstatic Elvis put his arms around the President, pulling him in for a spontaneous embrace. It was a surreal ? yet undeniably real ? moment in history. But the stranger-than-fiction story doesn't end, or begin, there…＜/p＞ ＜p＞Against the backdrop of that historical meeting, Jonathan Lowy weaves a vivid web of stories about the eccentric cast of characters whose lives were forever changed by the encounter. Some of the stories are fact, some are fiction, b．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る