1940 Woodward 2006a

Verdi Woodward Hope to Die: a memoir of jazz and justice, Schaffner Press, Inc.: Tucson, AZ, 2006, 338 pp., 2006a, 1940

     The prologue to the book is set on the 1940 Santa Monica Pier, and sets the mood and maybe the motivation for the protagonist's life, in this confrontation of a young serviceman and a teenage black man.

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