PAT BOONE’S AMERICA: 50 YEARS
A walk down memory lane…America then and now

Arlington, VA – Pat Boone’s love for America and the ideals that made it great are one of the many highlights featured in “Pat Boone’s America: A Pop Culture Journey through the Last Five Decades.”

Readers of this new 160-page coffee table book will be delighted with hundreds of photographs, a stroll down pop culture’s memory lane from a true insider, as well as family values that have always guided Pat Boone amid the difficult trappings of fame, fortune and Hollywood.

David Shepherd, senior vice president of the B&H Publishing Group, said, “Pat Boone’s career is the American Dream. This book is so personal, with his signature humor and humility, that you feel as if you are sitting down with Pat in his living room listening to the amazing adventures of his life from the beginnings in Nashville to becoming a star in Hollywood.”

Jim Martin, president of the national seniors’ group, the 60 Plus Association, which “is honored to have Pat as its national spokesman,” said, “In the world of show business, a measure of success is to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Pat Boone does not have a star. Pat Boone has three stars; one for movies, one for music and another for television. I found this book to be a treasure of Pat’s remarkable life of integrity. On one page you read of Pat’s love of God, the following of his friendships with royalty, heads of state and other rock ‘n’ roll icons, fun remembrances of all the shows and all the screaming fans and then the truly touching and on-going love affair he has with his wife Shirley and their beautiful family.”

A TV contest winner from the 1950s, Pat Boone won the famous “Ted Mack Amateur Hour” as well as the highly popular, long-running “Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts”, both precursors of today’s reality TV craze, “American Idol.” He has gone on to sell over 45 million records, chart 38 Top 40 hits, and hold the unbroken record of 220 weeks on the charts with more than one song. Pat starred in 15 movies, including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Bernardine, April Love, and State Fair. His previous books such as Twixt Twelve and Twenty and A New Song have sold millions of copies.