Hurricane Street
Published on 4. July 2016
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-61775-449-4 (ISBN)
Description
Kovic's impassioned, timely memoir about the American Veterans Movement picks up where Born on the Fourth of July leaves off.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61775-449-4 (9781617754494)
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Person
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).