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The book explored Colonel Tom Parker's life through letters and biography, revealing a deeper, more vulnerable character than previously imagined.
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His letters were worthy of a book, and now Guralnik has written it. It's called The Colonel and the King.
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The book explored Colonel Tom Parker's life through letters and biography, revealing a deeper, more vulnerable character than previously imagined.
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His letters were worthy of a book, and now Guralnik has written it. It's called The Colonel and the King.
My guest is Peter Goralnik. His new book is about Elvis Presley's longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker. The book is called The Colonel and the King.
Peter Guralnik's New book about Colonel Tom Parker Elvis Presley's Longtime manager Is called The Colonel and the King.
Guralnik said researching this book made him question many of his own preconceptions about Parker and led to plenty of surprises.
He wrote it as a twovolume biography, the first half a biography of the colonel and the second a collection of his letters.
The Colonel and the King
Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World
Peter Guralnik wrote The Colonel and the King as a new biography of Colonel Tom Parker that combined a narrative of Parker's life with a collection of his letters to Elvis and others.
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It's called The Colonel and the King. The first half of the book is a biography of the colonel. The second is a collection of his letters, written to Elvis, executives at his record l...
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Peter Guralnik wrote The Colonel and the King as a new biography of Colonel Tom Parker that combined a narrative of Parker's life with a collection of his letters to Elvis and others.
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It's called The Colonel and the King. The first half of the book is a biography of the colonel. The second is a collection of his letters, written to Elvis, executives at his record label, RCA, and other people in the orbit of Elvis's music and movies.
My guest is Peter Guralnik. His new book is about Elvis Presley's longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker. The book is called The Colonel and the King.
Peter Goralnik's new book about colonel tom parker elvis presley's longtime manager is called The Colonel and the King.
Project Mars. A Technical Tale
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It was referenced as a late1940s novel by von Braun that imagined life on the red planet.
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In the late 1940s, von Braun wrote a novel called Project Mars.
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It was referenced as a late1940s novel by von Braun that imagined life on the red planet.
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In the late 1940s, von Braun wrote a novel called Project Mars.
Mumbo Jumbo
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It was highlighted as a landmark novel by Ishmael Reed, published three years before George Clinton's album Mothership Connection.
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the novelists Octavia Butler and Ishmael Reed, whose landmark work, Mumbo Jumbo, had been published just three years before Mothership Connection.
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It was highlighted as a landmark novel by Ishmael Reed, published three years before George Clinton's album Mothership Connection.
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the novelists Octavia Butler and Ishmael Reed, whose landmark work, Mumbo Jumbo, had been published just three years before Mothership Connection.
The Colonel and the King
Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World
It was announced as Peter Guralnik's new book about Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
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Peter Guralnik is the author of the definitive twovolume biography of Elvis Presley. His new book is about Elvis' longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It's called The Colonel and the King
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It was announced as Peter Guralnik's new book about Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
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Peter Guralnik is the author of the definitive twovolume biography of Elvis Presley. His new book is about Elvis' longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It's called The Colonel and the King.
There There
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The interviewee mentioned Tommy Orange's novel as an example of work that explores Indigenous identity.
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Tommy Orange, who wrote his novel, They're There a few years ago, that really speaks to this.
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The interviewee mentioned Tommy Orange's novel as an example of work that explores Indigenous identity.
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Tommy Orange, who wrote his novel, They're There a few years ago, that really speaks to this.
The Final Conflict
The memoir was referenced as the work in which Mitford recounted her membership in the Communist Party and the motivations behind it.
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You wrote about your membership in the Communist Party in your book, A Final Conflict.
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The memoir was referenced as the work in which Mitford recounted her membership in the Communist Party and the motivations behind it.
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You wrote about your membership in the Communist Party in your book, A Final Conflict.
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The memoir was mentioned as Mitford's comingofage book where she admitted a guilty anticipation of debutante life.
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In your memoir about your coming of age called Daughters and Rebels, you wrote that you confessed that you were guiltily looking forward to being a debutante.
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The memoir was mentioned as Mitford's comingofage book where she admitted a guilty anticipation of debutante life.
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In your memoir about your coming of age called Daughters and Rebels, you wrote that you confessed that you were guiltily looking forward to being a debutante.
Searches
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The book examined how technology both aids and exploits us, using the author's own Google search archives as a narrative device.
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And now again, in Vara's new book, Searches, Selfhood in the Digital Age.
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The book examined how technology both aids and exploits us, using the author's own Google search archives as a narrative device.
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And now again, in Vara's new book, Searches, Selfhood in the Digital Age.
There are parts of your book where you describe your life through your Searches because you don't like the fact that Google has a lot of information on you based on your Searches, but you do like the fact that your Searches have been archived.
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There There
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Orange's novel was cited as a resonant work on Native identity, illustrating the complex ways Indigenous people think about and experience their heritage.
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When there was a quote that came to mind for you from Native writer Tommy Orange, who wrote his novel There, There a few years ago, that really speaks to this.
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Orange's novel was cited as a resonant work on Native identity, illustrating the complex ways Indigenous people think about and experience their heritage.
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Melville's short story was referenced as a literary comparison, highlighting the theme of choosing inaction over conflict.
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Like Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, Haim finds power in simply saying, I would prefer not to.
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Melville's short story was referenced as a literary comparison, highlighting the theme of choosing inaction over conflict.
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Like Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, Haim finds power in simply saying, I would prefer not to.
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I'm not the target audience for Helen Weibrow's memoir, The Salt Stones. Yet I was transported by it. Weibrow, a former editor, has lived for over 20 years with her family on Knoll Fa...
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The memoir was described as a vivid account of Weibrow's life on a Vermont farm, featuring her work with Icelandic sheep and the natural world.
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I'm not the target audience for Helen Weibrow's memoir, The Salt Stones. Yet I was transported by it. Weibrow, a former editor, has lived for over 20 years with her family on Knoll Farm in Vermont where she tends a flock of some 90 Icelandic sheep.
A Marriage at Sea
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The book was highlighted as a truestory adventure about a 1970s couple who sold their home to sail around the world, facing a shipwreck and survival on a raft.
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A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst is a true story that's part extreme adventure tale, part meditation on the mystery of a loving partnership. Morris and Marilyn Bailey were a lowermiddleclass English couple bored with their lives in the early 1970s. They sold their suburban bungalow, bought a boat, and sailed round the world, only to have their sloop sink and survive months adrift on a rubber raft.
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The interview highlighted Piazza's 2013 memoir, mentioning it while probing his confrontation with Roger Clemens and later quoting a passage from the book.
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The interview highlighted Piazza's 2013 memoir, mentioning it while probing his confrontation with Roger Clemens and later quoting a passage from the book.
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Empire of the Elite
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The author introduced his new book about Cond Nast, describing it as an inside look at the media dynasty that reshaped America.
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Grinbaum's new book is called Empire of the Elite, Inside Cond Nast, the media dynasty that reshaped America.
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If you look at lots of news websites, CNN, The New York Times, they always have a red carpet portfolio on Oscar night of all the celebrities who showed up. People pay attention to who gets invited, who doesn't. And there's kind of this almost like a chemtrail of the Conde glamour that's still lingering in our culture. And the party is one of the final vestiges of it.
On The Move
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The book was presented as Lustgarten's latest work, focusing on the overheating Earth and the uprooting of America, and was later referenced as having been written years ago and released the previous year covering American relocation due to climate change.
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And his latest book is On The Move, The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America.
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The book was presented as Lustgarten's latest work, focusing on the overheating Earth and the uprooting of America, and was later referenced as having been written years ago and released the previous year covering American relocation due to climate change.
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And his latest book is On The Move, The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America.
you know in your book On The Move you wrote this several years ago it came out last year but you write about Americans relocating because of all types of things sea level rise wildfires extreme heat
The Mitford Girls
The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell (2001-09-13)
The biography was cited as Lovell's 2001 detailed account of the Mitford sisters, known in the U.S. as The Sisters.
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In the U.K., The Mitford Girls is a subject and a phrase that's instantly recognizable. So much so that when Mary S. Lovell wrote a detailed biography of them in 2001, she called her...
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The biography was cited as Lovell's 2001 detailed account of the Mitford sisters, known in the U.S. as The Sisters.
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In the U.K., The Mitford Girls is a subject and a phrase that's instantly recognizable. So much so that when Mary S. Lovell wrote a detailed biography of them in 2001, she called her book The Mitford Girls.
The Salt Stones
Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
Maureen Corrigan described the memoir as a vivid, transportive account of Weibrow's life on a Vermont farm, noting its deep connection to nature.
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I was transported by it. Weibrow, a former editor, has lived for over 20 years with her family on Knoll Farm in Vermont. There, she tends a flock of some 90 Icelandic sheep, known for their doubleply...
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Maureen Corrigan described the memoir as a vivid, transportive account of Weibrow's life on a Vermont farm, noting its deep connection to nature.
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I was transported by it. Weibrow, a former editor, has lived for over 20 years with her family on Knoll Farm in Vermont. There, she tends a flock of some 90 Icelandic sheep, known for their doubleply coats and disinclination to docility.
A Marriage at Sea
A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Maureen Corrigan highlighted the book as an extremeadventure true story about a couple's 1970s sailing mishap that turned into a survival saga on a raft.
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A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst is a true story that's part extreme adventure tale, part meditation on the mystery of a loving partnership. Morris and Marilyn Bailey were a lower...
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Maureen Corrigan highlighted the book as an extremeadventure true story about a couple's 1970s sailing mishap that turned into a survival saga on a raft.
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A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst is a true story that's part extreme adventure tale, part meditation on the mystery of a loving partnership. Morris and Marilyn Bailey were a lowermiddleclass English couple bored with their lives in the early 1970s... A year later, in the middle of the Pacific, a whale breached out of the briny deep and knocked a hole in the Oralin. It sank within minutes. Marilyn, who couldn't swim, and Morris spent four months adrift on a rubber raft.
Cry for Me, Argentina
My Life as a Failed Child Star
The memoir recounted her tumultuous childhood as a failed child star, detailing her moves between Argentina and California and her Jewish upbringing.
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Tamara Yahia has written a new memoir called Cry For Me Argentina, My Life As a Failed Child Star.
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The memoir recounted her tumultuous childhood as a failed child star, detailing her moves between Argentina and California and her Jewish upbringing.
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Tamara Yahia has written a new memoir called Cry For Me Argentina, My Life As a Failed Child Star.
Her new memoir is called Cry for Me, Argentina. My Life as a Failed Child Star.
Tamara Yejia speaking with Terry Gross. Her new memoir is called Cry for Me, Argentina. My Life as a Failed Child Star.
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