The Sicilian Judge: Anthony Alaimo, an American Hero - Hardcover

Coppola, Vincent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881461253 ISBN 13: 9780881461251

Verlag: Mercer University Press, 2008

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Book by Vincent Coppola

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Judge Anthony Alaimo's life is a metaphor for quintessential American values: courage, hard work, patriotism, compassion. This biography does not dwell in the realm of metaphorical; it plunges us into the day-to-day life of an immigrant family struggling in the depths of the Depression to become Americans, of an immigrant son putting his every dream on hold to pursue a greater passion: love of country. It carries us into the madness of air warfare, the horror of a screaming crash into the frigid North Sea, the terrible realization and burden of living with the knowledge that you survived when everyone else died. The son of illiterate, but deeply religious Sicilian immigrants, US District Court Judge Anthony Alaimo shined shoes and cut hair in Jamestown, New York, to pay for his college education. (He was the Golden Gloves boxer attending the quiet Methodist College.) As a POW, he participated in the world-famous Great Escape, and later broke out on his own, making his way through German lines into Switzerland. A mother's love, religious faith, and ferocious patriotism transform an impoverished immigrant boy into one of the Greatest Generation heroes. This book takes us inside the incandescent life and tumultuous times of Judge Anthony Alaimo, WWII bomber pilot, POW, and indomitable escape artist, whose fidelity to the law is equaled by his compassion and outrage at injustice.

Biografía del autor:

Vincent Coppola is a former Newsweek correspondent and award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, Talk, Men's Journal, Rolling Stone, Worth, Atlanta, Georgia Trend, and other publications. He is the author of Uneasy Warriors: The Perilous Journey of the Green Berets and Dragons of God: A Journey through Far Right America. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Coppola served as a visiting instructor in journalism and creative writing at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta.

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• Verlag: Mercer University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0881461253
• ISBN 13: 9780881461251
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322