CNN —The recent and bizarre attempt to wrest control of Graceland, the Memphis, Tennessee, home of the late Elvis Presley, set off a number of red flags.
But Elvis represents something different from Gilded Age robber barons such as Rockefeller and Carnegie, whose American Dream was fundamentally about the accumulation of wealth.
“Seems we was always in debt,” recalled Gladys Presley, Elvis’s mother.
Fans walk by the entrance to Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley, on August 14, 2007, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Immediately after moving into Graceland, Elvis, the ultimate consumer, began renovations.
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