Killing the Legends by Bill O'Reilly

Killing the Legends

The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · September 27, 2022

In the next 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.

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Genres
Lives in Entertainment, Musicians' Lives, Murder & Homicide
Published
St. Martin's Press, September 27, 2022

About this book

In the next 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.

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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.

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  • celebrity-and-history crossover
  • cultural shorthand with a grim edge

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  • sustained narrative pace
  • familiar names, starker context

Where it sits

Musicians' Lives35%
Lives in Entertainment34%
Murder & Homicide28%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Musicians' Lives
  • Lives of the Rich & Famous
  • Rock
Authors
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Published
September 27, 2022
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Musicians' Lives