
"Definitive.With Presley's story at its core, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll is in some ways the third volume Guralnick's double-volume Elvis bio. This is vital American history, smartly and warmly told."- Dwight Garner, New York Times, Top Books of 2015 Guralnick is a sensitive biographer who has landed upon a perfect topic in Phillips, the brilliant Memphis producer who, in the 1950s, recorded the earliest work of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Howlin' Wolf. One of The Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2015
