{"product_id":"hurricane-street-9781617754494","title":"Hurricane Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[A] compelling snapshot of early 1970s activism. . . . Without social media or cell phones to boost the signal, it was Kovic's flair for the dramatic and ability to marshal reporters that turned the protest into a battle victory. . . . Kovic's updates on the fates of his fellow veterans provide a memorable and bittersweet conclusion.\" --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003cem\u003eBorn on the Fourth of July\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Kovic\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBorn on the Fourth of July\u003c\/i\u003e (starring Tom Cruise as Kovic).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856081359122,"sku":"9781617754494","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e1cd2484-f6d6-4615-9829-77fb3533b349.jpg?v=1737494940","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hurricane-street-9781617754494","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}