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010 $a 2017448600
020 $a9781501147296 (pbk.) :$cNT$560
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aD810.N4$bW49 2017
082 04$a940.5403$222
100 1 $aWideman, John Edgar,$eauthor.
245 10$aWriting to Save a Life :$bThe Louis Till file /$cJohn Edgar Wideman.
250 $aFirst Scribner trade paperback edition.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner,$c2017.
300 $a193 p. ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $aLouis Till - - The file - - Graves.
520 $aEmmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned home dead. Murdered because he was a colored boy and had, allegedly, whistled at a white woman. His mother, MamieTill, chose to display her son's brutalized face in a glass-topped casket, "so the world can see what they did to my baby." Emmett Till's murder and his mother\'s refusal to allow his story to be forgotten have become American legends. Butone darkly significant twist in the Till legend is rarely mentioned: Louis Till, Emmett's father, Mamie's husband, a soldier during World WarII, was executed in Italy for committing rape and murder. In 1955, when he and Emmett were each only fourteen years old, Wideman saw a horrific photograph of dead Emmett's battered face. Decades later, upon discovering that Louis Till had been court-martialed and hanged, he was impelled to investigate the tragically intertwined fates offather and son. Writing to Save a Life is "part exploration and part meditation, a searching account of [Wideman's] attempt to learn more about the short life of Louis Till" (The New York Times Book Review) and shine light on the truths that have remained in darkness. Wideman, the author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, "is a master of quiet meditation - and his book is remarkable for its insight and power" (SFGate). An amalgam of research, memoir, and imagination, Writing to Save a Life is essential and "impressive" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) reading-an engaging, enlightening conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons.
600 10$aTill, Louis,$d1922-1945$xDeath and burial.
600 10$aTill, Emmett,$d1941-1955$xDeath and burial.
600 10$aWideman, John Edgar.
650 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$zItaly.
650 0$aAfrican American men$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
650 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAfrican Americans$vBiography.
650 0$aAfrican American soldiers$vBiography.
650 0$aWar crimes$zItaly$zCivitavecchia.
650 0$aWar crimes$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.