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ELVIS
PRESLEY PASSED HERE: EVEN MORE LOCATIONS
OF AMERICA'S POP CULTURE LANDMARKS,
by Chris Epting
You might
think, after amassing two other seemingly
comprehensive tomes about the places where
something interesting happened, that the indefatigable
Chris Epting might start running out of material.
Nothing could be further from the truth, however,
for a couple of good reasons. One is that
American history still contains many rich
lodes just waiting for someone like Epting
to mine them. The other is that pop culture
is not like fossil fuel -- it's a renewable
resource. In Elvis Presley Passed Here,
Epting serves up a fascinating collection
of events and their landmarks from the dawn
of American history to almost now. From the
oldest residential streets -- a contest between
Huguenot Street in New York and Elfreth's
Alley in Pennsylvania -- to Napoleon Dynamite's
house in Idaho, Epting creates a mosaic of
Americana in categories ranging from history,
tragedy, crime, and celebrity events to movies,
television, art, architecture, and music...[Read
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