| Title | : | Hurricane Street (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Ron Kovic |
| Release | : | 2016-07-04 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs |
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| 1 | Hurricane Street (Unabridged) | Ron Kovic |
| 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. |
