Born on the Fourth of July – Standard Edition

    By: Ron Kovic
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      With a new foreword by Bruce Springsteen.

      This New York Times best seller (more than one million copies sold), presented here in a special fortieth-anniversary edition with a brand-new foreword by Bruce Springsteen, details the author’s life story (portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film)—from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country’s most outspoken anti–Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.

      Description

      Listen to an audio clip of Bruce Springsteen reading his new foreword and read an excerpt from Born on the Fourth of July at Rolling Stone. (You can also find the Bruce Springsteen audio clip featured at The Daily Beast, the Hollywood Reporter, Asbury Park Press, Billboard, Ultimate Classic Rock, Radio.com, NME, ABC News Radio, USA Today, Truthdig, and The ARTery/WBUR Boston.)

      Read a feature on Bruce Springsteen, which includes commentary from Ron Kovic at TIME.

      Watch Ron Kovic discuss his experiences and post-war activism on KCRW’s Scheer Intelligence.

      Numbered eBooks: 300

      Number of Unique Covers: 1

      Number of 1:1 Covers: 0

      Born on the Fourth of July

      1 Unique Designs
      x 300 Numbered eBooks
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      eBook Numbers 000 - 299
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      Details

      Publisher : Akashic Books, Ltd

      First Publication Date : 1976

      Author : Ron Kovic

      Genres: Autobiography, Biography, History, Memoir, Military, Non-Fiction, War Story

      Language : English

      Word Count : 60,000

      Format : DEA (Decentralized Encrypted Asset)

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      Cover Art : Includes 4K hi-resolution book cover

      Cardano Policy ID : 6e6b4d7bf5b593d132a4b2130219d1b17f35c634ac2c2824e063e2b1

      Author Info

      Ron Kovic

      Ron Kovic 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 Born on the Fourth of July (starring Tom Cruise as Kovic). Hurricane Street (2016) detailed Kovic’s efforts to organize the American Veterans Movement in 1974, fighting for better treatment of injured and d… Read More