Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom
Jan 2011 · Chicago Review Press
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Onetime seemingly unstoppable boxing champion, victim of a false conviction for a triple homicide, and spokesperson for the wrongfully incarcerated, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is a controversial twentieth century icon. In this moving narrative, Dr. Carter tells of the metaphoric and physical prisons he has survived: his poverty-stricken childhood, his troubled adolescence and early adulthood, his 19-year imprisonment with 10 years in solitary confinement, and the knowledge that his life was forever altered by injustice. A spiritual as well as factual autobiography, his is not a comfortable story or a comfortable philosophy, but he offers hope for those who have none, and his words are a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Eye of the Hurricane may well change the way we view crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.
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Khahliso Tlali (Juicé)
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January 7, 2021
I saw the movie. I anticipate the book is exceptional. Mind opening.
Charlotte Namok
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August 24, 2015
Love it
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About the author
STRONGDr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, LLD, was wrongfully convicted of a triple homicide and incarcerated for 19 years before being released in 1988. He is the author of The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472 and the CEO of Innocence International, an organization devoted to freeing the innocent worldwide. His life has been the subject of three books and The Hurricane, a major motion picture starring Denzel Washington. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. STRONGKen Klonsky is the author of Shrink and Songs of Aging Children. STRONGNelson Mandela is the former president of South Africa, an antiapartheid activist, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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