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Search - Dead Giveaway: The Rescue, Hamburgers, White Folks, and Instant Celebrity . . . What You Saw on TV Doesn't Begin to Tell the Story . . .

Dead Giveaway The Rescue Hamburgers White Folks and Instant Celebrity What You Saw on TV Doesn't Begin to Tell the Story
Author: Charles Ramsey, Randy Nyerges

From dishwasher to international celebrity in one afternoon . . . Charles Ramsey delivers a candid account of his life before, during, and after the dramatic rescue of three kidnapped women in Cleveland on May 6, 2013. Global news media declared him a hero. Well wishers mobbed him. The Internet made him a viral sensation. It couldn't have happen... more »ed to a less likely guy.Ramsey was in the wrong place at the right time when he heard a young woman cry for help from behind his neighbor's locked front door on gritty Seymour Avenue. His impulsive reaction--to kick in that door and help get her out--led to the rescue of three women: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight, along with Berry's young daughter. It was an astonishing discovery: the three women had been missing, unknown captives, for a decade.International news media instantly flocked to a neighborhood--and a man--they would otherwise never have noticed. It was an opportunity Charles Ramsey couldn't turn down. In interviews after the rescue, his unfiltered description and blunt opinions on race, class and life in the inner city made Ramsey an instant, if unlikely, celebrity."I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl runs into a black man's arms. Dead giveaway." It was the quote that launched a thousand internet memes . . .In this book, Ramsey shares a detailed account of the day of the rescue--from the fateful trip to McDonalds for a burger to the arrest of the culprit Ariel Castro. He describes living next door to Castro--outwardly charming, secretly a monster--all the while unaware of the captives a few feet away. He talks about the neighborhood in which this all happened.Ramsey tells about his life before the rescue, including growing up as a privileged black kid in a mostly white suburb, getting into trouble over and over, getting kicked out of school, selling drugs, serving time in prison, and, after release, working as a dishwasher to make ends meet.And he describes what it's like to become an instant celebrity, when suddenly everybody wants a piece of you. Restaurants offered him free food for life (he declined). He was the subject of a video game and T-shirts (without his permission). His on-air remarks were remixed into a viral music video viewed more than 20 million times. When his cell phone screen filled up with thousands and thousands of text messages, emails, and voice mails--more than he could ever read, he tossed it in the river. And he learned the hard way that when a national TV show flies you to New York City for an interview, that doesn?t mean they also bought you a return ticket to Cleveland. This is the tale of a slightly irregular guy in very irregular circumstances, told with a sharp sense of humor.?What you saw on TV doesn?t even begin to tell the story,? Ramsey says.

ISBN-13: 9781938441516
ISBN-10: 1938441516
Publication Date: 5/6/2014
Pages: 186
Edition: 1
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Currently 4.3/5 Stars.

4.3 stars, based on 2 ratings

Publisher: Gray & Company, Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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