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You are bidding on this nice soft cover edition of Lazarus and The Hurricane, The Freeing of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. It was written by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton, has a copyright date of 2000, and is a St. Martin’s Griffin edition. It is in very good condition, with some wear and curling at the corners and edges, and some light scuffs on the cover. The binding is good, and all 344 pages including index are intact and in good condition. This is a very nice true story, and an interesting read;
This remarkable true story begins in a Brooklyn ghetto when a group of Canadians meets Lesra (Lazarus), an illiterate black teenager who wins their hearts. They end up bringing him to Toronto to help with his education, and while learning to read, Lesra finds a copy of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s The Sixteenth Round. It was a book destined to change Lesra’s life forever, and the lives of his adopted family. Rubin Carter, the subject of Bob Dylan’s song “Hurricane,” was a number one middleweight boxing contender who had been wrongfully imprisoned after a white jury found him guilty of the murder of three whites in 1966. A huge public outcry followed the publication of The Sixteenth Round in 1974, culminating in a retrial, which was a virtual reenactment of the original travesty, with Carter receiving the same triple life sentence. Moved by Lesra’s passion, his adopted Canadian family contacted Carter and reinvigorated the legal battle. The inspiring relationship that ensued forms the heart of Lazarus and the Hurricane – a riveting legal drama, a fast-paced murder investigation, and, above all, a moving account of hope, humanity, and the indomitability of the human spirit…
