“Elvis Day by Day,” Peter Guralnick
Ernst Jorgensen’s is the bible for those who want to know what Elvis did in the studio and when, but for the big day-by-day picture of the King’s life, you want this lavishly illustrated coffeetable book, which utilizes Guralnick’s wordsmithing and Jorgenson’s archivism to paint a very intimate portrait of Presley’s life. Want to play detective and figure out who the real Elvis was? Here’s 400 pages of (often surprising) evidence.