Hurricane

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Rubin Carter is the Hurricane. A pistol shot in a bar room ruined his chances of becoming the middleweight champion of the world. But he did not fire the gun. Nineteen long years in prison a massively high profile campaign to release him that failed & the persistence of an unlikely supporter finally saw him free. This is the story of a raging bull who learned to accommodate that rage. The Hurricane is an authentic C20th hero every inch a fighter. Rubin Carter was a boxer on the threshold of the Middleweight Championship with all the celebrity & wealth that would have conferred when he was picked off the streets of Paterson New Jersey by the police & accused of first degree murder in a bar room shooting. It was 1966 when America was gripped by racial rioting & burgeoning Black Power movements. Rubin faced an all-white jury. He was convicted. Liberal America adopted the campaign to release him in the 1970s -- Candice Bergen Mohammad Ali & Bob Dylan all protested for his release -- but he remained in jail until 1985. Then one man doggedly self-educated in the law finally achieved what years of high-profile lobbying had not: he freed Rubin Carter & righted one of the most significant cases of American injustice this century. Hurricane is a biography of modern Americas great flaw: race relations. It is the story of a troublesome but gifted man a paratrooper a boxer from the poorer side of the tracks who was crudely & cruelly convicted of a crime he did not commit. Failed by the justice process Rubin Carter proved himself a fighter all over again outside of the boxing ring & a genuine hero in the process.