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In The Colonel, Alanna Nash, the author of Golden Lady: THE STORYLINE of Jessica Savitch, explores in depth the amazing tale of Colonel Tom Parker, the person behind the tale and the myth of Elvis Presley. The result is similar to the most riveting of real-life detective tales - one that will completely change your view of Presley's life, success, and fatality. While ratings of books have been discussed Elvis Presley, this is the first meticulously explored biography of Tom Parker written by someone who realized him in person. And for anyone truly enthusiastic about the performer many consider the greatest and most influential of the 20th century, it is impossible to comprehend how Elvis had become such a happening without examining the life span and mind of Parker, the person who virtually handled Elvis' every move. Alanna Nash has been within the tale of Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker because the day of Presley's funeral in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the first journalist permitted to view Presley's body, a compelling and surprising sight. But the profile of Parker participating the funeral in a Hawaiian t-shirt and a baseball cap was even stranger and led her to investigate the person behind the myth. It's been known for twenty years that Thomas Andrew Parker is at fact born in Holland as Andreas Cornelis truck Kuijk. But Nash has dug much deeper and, in a masterpiece of reporting, unearthed never-before-seen documents, including Parker's military documents and psychiatric evaluations and the original police report of an unsolved murder circumstance in Holland that is placed in the centre of the Parker unknown. In the process of weighing the data, she answers the largest riddle in the history of the music industry, as it becomes clear that every move Parker manufactured in the handling of Elvis Presley - from why he never allowed Elvis to perform in Europe, to why he didn't halt Elvis' medicine use, to why he put him in so many mediocre films and even the Colonel's course of Presley's military career - was designed to protect Parker's own secrets. Filled up with startling new material, her book challenges even the most familiar precepts of the Presley saga - everything we presumed about Parker's handling of the world's most famous entertainer must now be reevaluated in the light of information Nash reveals about Parker. Elvis Presley, as one of Parker's unwitting subjects, paid a major price for the Colonel's former and his mind-boggling have to be more important than his consumer. As a result Presley was never permitted to reach his probable and passed on in drug-induced frustration over his stunted and mismanaged career. In this astonishing, impeccably written, and greatly entertaining booklet, Nash proves that the one figure in North american popular culture as amazing as Elvis Presley is Colonel Tom Parker, the person who designed Elvis, who subsequently helped condition us.