Dead Giveaway: The Rescue, Hamburgers, White Folks, and Instant Celebrity . . .
"Charles Ramsey is the best kind of hero . . . the kind that saves lives, and makes you laugh your ass off." � TMZ.com
From dishwasher to international celebrity in one afternoon . . . Charles Ramsey gives a roller coaster account of his life before, during, and after the dramatic rescue of three kidnapped women in Cleveland . . .
Global news media declared him a hero. Well-wishers mobbed him. The Internet made him a viral sensation. It couldn�t have happened to a less likely guy. Now, read how it all went down.
Ramsey was in the wrong place at the right time when he answered a young woman�s cry for help, kicked in his neighbor�s locked front door, and got her the hell out of there�leading to the astonishing rescue of three young women�Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight�who had been missing for a decade.
Reporters and TV cameras flocked to a neighborhood�and a man�they otherwise would have ignored. Ramsey was ready, with plenty to say.
�Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man�s arms . . . Dead giveaway.� It was a quote that launched a thousand Internet memes . . .
In this book Ramsey walks us step-by-step through the day of the rescue and talks about living right next door to Ariel Castro�outwardly charming, secretly a monster.
He tells about life before the rescue�growing up a privileged black kid in a white suburb, seeking out trouble over and over, getting kicked out of school, selling drugs, going to prison, and ultimately finding work as a dishwasher and landing by chance on gritty Seymour Avenue.
And he shares what it�s like to become an instant celebrity, when suddenly everybody wants a piece of you. (For example, he learned the hard way that when a big TV network flies you to New York City for an interview, that doesn�t mean they also bought you a ticket back home to Cleveland!)
This is a wild, eye-opening tale told with a sharp sense of humor.
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From dishwasher to international celebrity in one afternoon . . . Charles Ramsey gives a roller coaster account of his life before, during, and after the dramatic rescue of three kidnapped women in Cleveland . . .
Global news media declared him a hero. Well-wishers mobbed him. The Internet made him a viral sensation. It couldn�t have happened to a less likely guy. Now, read how it all went down.
Ramsey was in the wrong place at the right time when he answered a young woman�s cry for help, kicked in his neighbor�s locked front door, and got her the hell out of there�leading to the astonishing rescue of three young women�Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight�who had been missing for a decade.
Reporters and TV cameras flocked to a neighborhood�and a man�they otherwise would have ignored. Ramsey was ready, with plenty to say.
�Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man�s arms . . . Dead giveaway.� It was a quote that launched a thousand Internet memes . . .
In this book Ramsey walks us step-by-step through the day of the rescue and talks about living right next door to Ariel Castro�outwardly charming, secretly a monster.
He tells about life before the rescue�growing up a privileged black kid in a white suburb, seeking out trouble over and over, getting kicked out of school, selling drugs, going to prison, and ultimately finding work as a dishwasher and landing by chance on gritty Seymour Avenue.
And he shares what it�s like to become an instant celebrity, when suddenly everybody wants a piece of you. (For example, he learned the hard way that when a big TV network flies you to New York City for an interview, that doesn�t mean they also bought you a ticket back home to Cleveland!)
This is a wild, eye-opening tale told with a sharp sense of humor.
Dead Giveaway: The Rescue, Hamburgers, White Folks, and Instant Celebrity . . .
"Charles Ramsey is the best kind of hero . . . the kind that saves lives, and makes you laugh your ass off." � TMZ.com
From dishwasher to international celebrity in one afternoon . . . Charles Ramsey gives a roller coaster account of his life before, during, and after the dramatic rescue of three kidnapped women in Cleveland . . .
Global news media declared him a hero. Well-wishers mobbed him. The Internet made him a viral sensation. It couldn�t have happened to a less likely guy. Now, read how it all went down.
Ramsey was in the wrong place at the right time when he answered a young woman�s cry for help, kicked in his neighbor�s locked front door, and got her the hell out of there�leading to the astonishing rescue of three young women�Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight�who had been missing for a decade.
Reporters and TV cameras flocked to a neighborhood�and a man�they otherwise would have ignored. Ramsey was ready, with plenty to say.
�Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man�s arms . . . Dead giveaway.� It was a quote that launched a thousand Internet memes . . .
In this book Ramsey walks us step-by-step through the day of the rescue and talks about living right next door to Ariel Castro�outwardly charming, secretly a monster.
He tells about life before the rescue�growing up a privileged black kid in a white suburb, seeking out trouble over and over, getting kicked out of school, selling drugs, going to prison, and ultimately finding work as a dishwasher and landing by chance on gritty Seymour Avenue.
And he shares what it�s like to become an instant celebrity, when suddenly everybody wants a piece of you. (For example, he learned the hard way that when a big TV network flies you to New York City for an interview, that doesn�t mean they also bought you a ticket back home to Cleveland!)
This is a wild, eye-opening tale told with a sharp sense of humor.
From dishwasher to international celebrity in one afternoon . . . Charles Ramsey gives a roller coaster account of his life before, during, and after the dramatic rescue of three kidnapped women in Cleveland . . .
Global news media declared him a hero. Well-wishers mobbed him. The Internet made him a viral sensation. It couldn�t have happened to a less likely guy. Now, read how it all went down.
Ramsey was in the wrong place at the right time when he answered a young woman�s cry for help, kicked in his neighbor�s locked front door, and got her the hell out of there�leading to the astonishing rescue of three young women�Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight�who had been missing for a decade.
Reporters and TV cameras flocked to a neighborhood�and a man�they otherwise would have ignored. Ramsey was ready, with plenty to say.
�Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man�s arms . . . Dead giveaway.� It was a quote that launched a thousand Internet memes . . .
In this book Ramsey walks us step-by-step through the day of the rescue and talks about living right next door to Ariel Castro�outwardly charming, secretly a monster.
He tells about life before the rescue�growing up a privileged black kid in a white suburb, seeking out trouble over and over, getting kicked out of school, selling drugs, going to prison, and ultimately finding work as a dishwasher and landing by chance on gritty Seymour Avenue.
And he shares what it�s like to become an instant celebrity, when suddenly everybody wants a piece of you. (For example, he learned the hard way that when a big TV network flies you to New York City for an interview, that doesn�t mean they also bought you a ticket back home to Cleveland!)
This is a wild, eye-opening tale told with a sharp sense of humor.
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| BN ID: | 2940149405855 |
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| Publisher: | Gray and Company, Publishers |
| Publication date: | 04/26/2014 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 165 |
| File size: | 961 KB |
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