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  • 20,000-copy first printing (15,000 paperbacks, 5,000 hardcovers)
  • Kovic's previous memoir, Born on the Fourth of July, is a true classic of American anti-war literature and has sold over 1,000,000 copies. Akashic's reissue of Born on the Fourth of July is one of our top backlist titles and sells thousands every year.
  • Strong academic potential, especially since Born on the Fourth of July is taught widely in American universities and Ron is frequently invited to speak at USC and other colleges around the country.
  • Kovic has been publicly recognized by Barack Obama and many other political leaders, activists, etc.
  • 2016 is the 40-year anniversary of the first publication of Born on the Fourth of July.
  • Simultaneous publication of hardcover, paperback and e-book editions.
  • Galleys (and e-galleys via Edelweiss) available in Fall 2015.
  • Digital Reading Group Guide available from Akashic's website.
  • Galley display & giveaways at ALA Mid Winter and BEA.
  • Major media push to national TV, radio, print, and online publications.
  • Giveaways on Goodreads, LibraryThing, and through Advance Access.



    • Autorentext

    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).



    Zusammenfassung
    The author of Born on the Fourth of July delivers “a harrowing, poignant telling of the American Veteran’s Movement and its members’ struggles” (Manhattan Book Review). In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM members into staging a sit-in, and then a hunger strike, in the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston, demanding better treatment of injured and disabled veterans. This was a short-lived and chaotic but ultimately successful movement to improve the deplorable conditions in VA hospitals across the country. Hurricane Street is their story—one that resonates deeply today—told by Kovic in the passionate and brutally honest style that led to over one million sales of Born on the Fourth of July.“Another raw exposé on the cost of war . . . The book is an unflinching anti-war declaration, written in blood and the sweat of too many haunted nights by a Vietnam Marine Corps sergeant who later opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.” —Los Angeles Times“A deeply moving account of the struggle of Vietnam veterans to hold politicians accountable to the maimed warriors they sent into harm’s way and then abandoned.” —Robert Scheer, author of They Know Everything About You“An impassioned and timely memoir about the 1974 American Veterans Movement that will strike a chord with veterans and their families today.” —Publishers Weekly, Top 10 Pick for Spring 2016
    Titel
    Hurricane Street
    Autor
    Ron Kovic
    EAN
    9781617754524
    ISBN
    978-1-61775-452-4
    Format
    E-Book (pdf)
    Hersteller
    Akashic Books, Ltd.
    Herausgeber
    Akashic Books
    Veröffentlichung
    13.06.2016
    Digitaler Kopierschutz
    Wasserzeichen
    Anzahl Seiten
    224
    Jahr
    2016
    Untertitel
    Englisch