The Dead Drink First - Dale Maharidge
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Narrator: Dale Maharidge
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, Documentary, Adults, Contemporary
Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins Original Recording Audiobook Release date: 06-06-19 Publisher: Audible Studios Chapters: 8, About This Audible Original, Like many veterans of his era, Sgt. Steve Maharidge never talked about the good war. On the surface, the Maharidges were a normal working-class family in the suburbs of Cleveland. But behind closed doors, even the most mundane moments could trigger Steves violent, traumatic episodes, which left his son Dale searching for clues to his past. And yet, there was only one: a black and white photograph of Steve with another soldier that hung permanently on the wall in the basement., In The Dead Drink First, Dale Maharidge, now a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, recounts his 18-year quest to learn everything he could about the man in the photo with the hopes of discovering a side of his late father he never knew. The result was something Dale never expected: Not only would he learn the mans nameHerman Walter Mulliganbut he would help l
