Ron Kovic's New Book, A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy, Author Of Born On The Fourth Of July
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 disabled veterans. His latest work is A Dangerous Country.
Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July and one of the country’s most powerful and passionate antiwar voices, completes his Vietnam Trilogy with this poignant, inspiring, and deeply personal.
Maggie has an extended conversation with Ron Kovic about his new book which completes his Vietnam Trilogy and his deep and personal story of his time in Vietnam, returning home and how his political views shifted tremendously.
Source: https://www.akashicbooks.com/author/ron-kovic/
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kovic
Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.
