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Author Hirsch, James S.

Title Hurricane : the miraculous journey of Rubin Carter / James S. Hirsch
Published New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2000

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Description 358 pages, <16> pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Death house Rendezvous 1 -- 2. Wild West on the Passaic 8 -- 3. Danger on the Streets 19 -- 4. Mystery Witness 39 -- 5. A Force of Nature 60 -- 6. Boxer Rebellion 87 -- 7. Radical Chic Redux 108 -- 8. Revenge of Passaic County. 134 -- 9. Search for the Miraculous 159 -- 10. The Inner Circle of Humanity 181 -- 11. Paradise Found 194 -- 12. Powerful Appeals 218 -- 13. Final Judgment 246 -- 14. The Eagle Rises 266 -- 15. Vindication 285 -- 16. Tears of Renewal 312 -- Epilogue 334 -- Sources 341 -- Acknowledgments 343 -- Index 346
Summary "Hurricane recounts the harrowing, inspiring odyssey of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a black boxer wrongly convicted of three murders, from fierce despair to freedom and enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET. "On June 17, 1966, two black men strode into the Lafayette Grill, a white redoubt in racially mixed Paterson, New Jersey, and shot three people to death. Rubin Carter and his young acquaintance John Artis were not those men, but they were convicted of the murders in a highly publicized and racially charged trial."--BOOK JACKET. "Over the next decade, Carter amassed convincing evidence of his innocence and the vocal support of numerous celebrities (Bob Dylan's song "Hurricane" was but one example). He was freed pending a new trial, only to lose his appeal - to the astonishment of many - and land back in prison. He avoided almost all human contact, until he received a letter from Lesra Martin, a teenager raised in a Brooklyn ghetto."--BOOK JACKET
"Against his bitter instincts, Carter agreed to meet with Martin, thus taking the first step on a long, tortuous path back into the world. Martin introduced Carter to an enigmatic group of Canadians, including a strong-willed woman with whom he later began an intense unlikely romance. In the process, the Canadians helped wage an international battle to free him."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Carter, Rubin, 1937-2014.
Crime -- United States -- Case studies.
Judicial error -- United States.
Capital punishment -- United States -- Case studies.
Judicial error -- United States -- Case studies.
Capital punishment -- United States -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 99052703
ISBN 0395979854