Pat Boone Pat Boone's America: 50 Years [Autographed]

Pat Boone is the original American idol, a television amateur-hour contest winner from the 1950s who has gone on to sell over 45 million records, chart 38 Top 40 hits, and rank as the tenth biggest recording artist in rock music history. He has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (for music, television, and movies), and his previous books such as Twixt Twelve and Twenty and A New Song have sold millions of copies. Pat and Shirley, his wife of 62 years, live in Los Angeles, CA.

Pat Boone's America finds the legendary entertainer and statesman taking a golden look back with signature humor and humility at a half-century of American culture, and topics ranging from his 50-plus years of marriage to Shirley, the daughter of legendary Country music star Red Foley, race relations in the music and television industry, and patriotism.

The 160-page coffee table book contains over 200 photos, pop culture memories and spiritual insights, and gives the reader fun facts spanning the life of Pat Boone's career, such as the fact that during the mid-1950s era when rock 'n' roll was emerging, Boone was Billboard's No. 2 "Top Male Artist of the Decade," behind Elvis Presley, and was considered the original American idol by LIFE Magazine. Includes celebrity photographs and never-before-published stories and recollections.

"Pat has put together a fascinating story of his own life, punctuated with loads of pictures, as well as reminders of our times. It's a great combination of his personal story in a period of time when all of our lives changed." -Dick Clark