A Dangerous Country
An American Elegy
Published on 18. April 2024
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-63614-166-4 (ISBN)
Description
Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July and one of the country's most powerful and passionate antiwar voices, completes his Vietnam Trilogy with this poignant, inspiring, and deeply personal elegy to America.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63614-166-4 (9781636141664)
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RON KOVIC served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. He was paralyzed from his chest down in combat in 1968 and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Along with Oliver Stone, Kovic was the coscreenwriter of the 1989 Academy Award-winning film based on Kovic's best-selling memoir Born on the Fourth of July (starring Tom Cruise as Kovic). Hurricane Street (2016) detailed Kovic's efforts to organize the American Veterans Movement in 1974, fighting for better treatment of injured and disabled veterans. His latest work is A Dangerous Country.