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In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The effect is a masterpiece: a stunning, gripping biography, place against the abundant backdrop of Southern population - indeed, American population - in the next fifty percent of the 20th century. Writer of The Crucible of Competition and William Faulkner and Southern History, Joel Williamson is a renowned historian known for his inimitable and persuasive narrative style. In such a tour de drive biography, he captures the theatre of Presley's job set against the favorite culture of the post-World Warfare II South. Blessed in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley was a contradiction, flamboyant in pegged dark pants with green stripes, yet soft-spoken, respectfully courting a reliable girl from chapel. Then he wandered into Sunlight Details, and everything altered. "I had been terrified stiff," Elvis recalled about his first-time performing on stage. "Individuals were hollering and I didn't really know what they were hollering at." Girls does the hollering - at his snarl and swagger. Williamson phone calls it "the revolution of the Elvis women." His admirers lived within an intense instant, this generation raised by their mothers while their fathers were away at war, whose lives were changed by an exodus from the countryside to Southern towns, a postwar culture of use, and a striving for upwards mobility. They came up old in the age of the 1954 Dark brown vs. Plank of Education ruling, which transformed high colleges into battlegrounds of contest. Explosively, white women went wild for a white man motivated by and performing dark music while "wiggling" erotically. Elvis, Williamson argues, provided his female admirers an opportunity to liberate from straitlaced Southern population and express themselves sexually, only if for a few hours at the same time.
