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1 online resource (xxi, 328 pages) |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : a prisoner of ignorance : living in darkness -- Boys' prison : light where the sun don't shine -- The prison of family : what my father didn't tell me -- Image and identification : two ways we keep ourselves asleep -- Surviving prison : awakening to myself -- The hole in the wall : finding the higher path -- Taking "the work" out into the world : turning water into wine -- The rewards and responsibilities of a conscious life : the way of a one-eyed man -- Why I left the association in defense of the wrongly convicted : acting upon the truth -- Just enough : home free. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
A spiritual as well as a factual autobiography, this is a self-portrait of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a 20th-century icon and controversial victim of the U.S. justice system turned spokesperson for the wrongfully convicted. Exploring Carter's personal philosophy--born of the unimaginable duress of wrongful imprisonment and conceived through his defiance of the brutal institution of prison and a decade of solitary confinement--this work offers hope for those who have none and serves as a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Exposing the inherent flaws in the legal and penal syst. |
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Carter, Rubin, 1937-2014.
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Carter, Rubin, 1937-2014. (OCoLC)fst00304509
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Prisoners -- United States -- Biography.
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Judicial error -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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1937-
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Biography.
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Carter, Rubin.
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Judicial error.
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Prisoners.
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United States.
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Social sciences.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. (OCoLC)fst00883246
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Judicial error. (OCoLC)fst00984666
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Prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01077103
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
Klonsky, Kenneth.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carter, Rubin, 1937- Eye of the hurricane. Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2011 9781569765685 (DLC) 2010038527 (OCoLC)617445933 |
| ISBN |
9781569768204 (electronic bk.) |
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156976820X (electronic bk.) |
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