The Resource Hurricane Street, Ron Kovic
Hurricane Street, Ron Kovic
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The item Hurricane Street, Ron Kovic represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Hurricane Street, Ron Kovic represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 238 pages
- Contents
-
- The hospital
- The strike
- The aftermath
- Isbn
- 9781617754494
- Label
- Hurricane Street
- Title
- Hurricane Street
- Statement of responsibility
- Ron Kovic
- Subject
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- Medicine, Military
- trueParalysis
- Soldiers -- Biography
- United States, Veterans Administration
- Veterans -- Medical care -- United States
- Veterans -- United States -- Biography
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- United States -- Personal narratives
- Kovic, Ron
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kovic, Ron
- Dewey number
- 959.70438
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- UB369
- LC item number
- .K68 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Kovic, Ron
- United States
- Veterans
- Veterans
- Medicine, Military
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Hurricane Street, Ron Kovic
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The hospital -- The strike -- The aftermath
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9781617754494
- Lccn
- 2015954057
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- 926824710
- (OCoLC)926824710
- Label
- Hurricane Street, Ron Kovic
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The hospital -- The strike -- The aftermath
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9781617754494
- Lccn
- 2015954057
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- 926824710
- (OCoLC)926824710
Subject
- Medicine, Military
- trueParalysis
- Soldiers -- Biography
- United States, Veterans Administration
- Veterans -- Medical care -- United States
- Veterans -- United States -- Biography
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- United States -- Personal narratives
- Kovic, Ron
- Autobiographies
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