Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

In the contemporary 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 in every single place, in each nation, across each culture. And their stories became larger than life—until their lives spun out of keep watch over by 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. Every experienced immense success, then failures that forced them to change; Every faced the challenge of growing old in fields that privilege youth; and in the end, Every became isolated, cocooned by wealth but susceptible 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 well liked series of narrative history books on the earth, with more than 18 million copies in print.