A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy

by Ron Kovic

Book Overview

WHEN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD RON KOVIC enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in the fall of 1964, he couldn't foresee that he would return from Vietnam paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life. His best-selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July is an antiwar classic and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Tom Cruise as Kovic. His follow-up, Hurricane Street, chronicled his advocacy for Vietnam veterans' rights, including a seventeen-day...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1636141668
• ISBN13: 9781636141664
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"