PositiveBloombergPeter Guralnick has already covered a lot of this ground in his landmark two-part biography, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, and Zoglin cherry-picks some of Guralnick’s choicest quotes ... The real achievement of the book, then, is how Zoglin traces the evolution of Vegas itself ... At the book’s core are the shows. Zoglin delves into the Rat Pack’s boozy \'broads-and-dagos\' routine that, for all the crude antics, were intimate affairs aimed at a sophisticated audience and high rollers. Elvis changed that calculus.
