This is the most important Elvis Presley book ever written

I remember three things about my visit to Graceland. The sweet, yeasty smell of stubble that seemed to hang over all of Memphis. The surprisingly small scale of the mansion, that Elvis purchased from a local printing family at the age of 22, so young that he didn’t think twice about moving his parents. And the garden at the end of the visit, with all those bodies in it.

Black marble slabs: Mom and Dad (his mother died of alcoholism during his first burst of fame); his identical twin brother Jesse, who died at birth; his grandmother; and Presley himself, who has worked there for 47 years.

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