Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Overview

In the latest book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell the larger-than-life stories of Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali.

The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more.

Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life—until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted.

In Killing the Legends, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard explore the lives, legacies, and tragic deaths of three of the most famous people of the 20th century. Each experienced immense success, then failures that forced them to change; each faced the challenge of growing old in fields that privilege youth; and finally, each became isolated, cocooned by wealth but vulnerable to the demands of those in their innermost circles.

Dramatic, insightful, and immensely entertaining, Killing the Legends is the twelfth book in O’Reilly and Dugard’s Killing series: the most popular series of narrative history books in the world, with more than 18 million copies in print.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250283306
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/27/2022
Series:	Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	1,510
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

BILL O'REILLY is a trailblazing TV journalist who has experienced unprecedented success on cable news and in writing eighteen national number-one bestselling nonfiction books. There are more than eighteen million books in the Killing series in print. He lives on Long Island.

MARTIN DUGARD is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, among them the Killing series, Into Africa, and Taking Paris. He and his wife live in Southern California.

Table of Contents

Prologue I 1

Prologue II 5

Prologue III 11

Part I The King 15

Part II The Walrus 113

Part III The Greatest 177

Authors' Note 271

Acknowledgments 277

Index 279