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050	0	4	_aD811 _b.C437 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aDeSalvo, Louise A., _d1942-2018. _e1
245	1	0	_aChasing ghosts : _ba memoir of a father, gone to war / _cLouise DeSalvo.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bFordham University Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aWorld War II : the global, human, and ethical dimension
520	2		_a"Chasing Ghosts describes how, near the end of his life, the daughter of a veteran of World War II comes to terms with her father, emotionally wounded by his military service through the stories he tells her about his childhood, about his military service in the Navy in the late 1930s, and about his wartime experiences and through her research undertaken to understand her father's life in the context of history. Told through the voice of a daughter seeking answers to her father's life, the narrator journeys into her father's history and the context in which it enfolds. She learns that her father's response had been a mixture of rage and silence and she begins to understand why he has chosen her as an object of his abuse. The narrative provides an understanding of working-class World War II veterans who performed the behind-the-scenes work, like the narrator's father's work as an aviation machinist's mate, necessary to waging war--work that was not conventionally heroic or, until recently, considered worthy of historical or cultural attention. By juxtaposing historical moments in her family's and the country's life, Chasing Ghosts engages in the current necessary conversation about the often unrecognized effects of war and its trauma on World War II veterans, and reinterprets the experience of her father and other such veterans in the context of contemporary understanding about the psychic cost of war and its cross-generational impact on families. In the process, the narrator's lack of knowledge is replaced with empathy for what he's experienced and an understanding of his place in history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520	2		_a"When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man--and herself--and the effect of his military service upon their family than she'd ever imagined. During his last years, as he told her about his life, DeSalvo began to understand that her obsession with war novels and military history wasn't merely academic but rooted in her desire to understand this complex father whom she both adored and reviled because of his mistreatment of her. Although she at first believes she wants to uncover his story, the story of a man who was no hero but who was nonetheless adversely affected by his military service, she learns that what she really wants is to recover the man that he was before he went away. As DeSalvo and her father uncover his past piece-by-piece, bit-by-bit, she learns about the dreams of a working-class man who entered the military in the late 1930s during peacetime to better himself, a man who wanted to become a pilot. She learns about what it was like for him to participate in war games in the Pacific prior to the war, and its devastating toll. She learns about what it was like for her parents to fall in love, set up house, marry, and have children during this cataclysmic time. And as the pieces of her father's life fall into place as works to piece together the puzzle of everything she's learned about this time, she finds herself finally able to understand him. Chasing Ghosts is an original contribution to the understanding of working-class World War II veterans who did not conventionally distinguish themselves through 'heroic' actions and whose lives were not until recently considered worthy of historical or cultural attention. It personalizes the history of those sailors who served in the Navy aboard aircraft carriers and on islands in the Pacific prior to, and during World War II and contributes to the current vital conversation about the often-unrecognized effects of war and its traumas upon those men and their families. It reveals the lifelong devastating consequences of military service on those men and women who fell in love, married, and set up house. And it reveals the complexity of what it is like to be the daughter of a father who has gone to war"--Provided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aPrologue: Flushing out the Enemy -- _tONE -- _tWar Stories -- _t"Join the Navy, See the World" -- _tThe Sea, the Sea -- _tOn the Road to Nowhere, Moving Fast -- _tFly Boy -- _tMan o' War's Man -- _tDead as a Doornail -- _tA Very Smart Ship -- _tA Flower, A Sunburst, A Star -- _tThe First Death -- _tInto the Drink -- _tTrouble Board -- _tWar Games -- _tWhen Pigs Can Fly -- _tTWO -- _t"The Girl for Me" -- _t"Of Couse I Will" -- _tCourtship -- _tSafe House -- _tLifeboat -- _tTHREE -- _tSo Much to Lose, So Much Already Lost -- _tMagic Bullet -- _tOn the Day I Was Born -- _t"Hide Your Tears" -- _tHouse Hunting -- _tFOUR -- _tSecret Code -- _tCommand Center -- _tThe Sailor Who Flew Home on Wings of Air -- _tA Knock at the Door -- _tJust a Very, Very Few of the Many, Many Who Have Died -- _tRage -- _tChasing Ghosts -- _tShip's Model -- _tMopping Up -- _tCargo Cult -- _tFIVE -- _tComing Home -- _tThe Evening News -- _tThe Last Time My Father Almost Died -- _tEpilogue -- _tWearing My Father's Bones.
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600	1	0	_aDeSalvo, Louise A., _d1942-2018 _xFamily.
600	1	0	_aDeSalvo, Louise A., _d1942-2018 _xChildhood and youth.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xVeterans _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aSailors _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aWorking class men _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aFathers and daughters _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aVeterans _xFamily relationships _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_aWar and society _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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