Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition [Paperback]

The book details Kovics entering of the Vietnam War as a fierce, pro-war patriot before becoming an outspoken peace activist after an injury paralyzed him and he returned home to a cold reception. Kovics book follows him from star high school wrestler to a patriotic American inspired by John F. Kennedy to join the marines to the traumatic 1968 wartime injury that left him paralyzed from the chest down to his emergence as an outspoken anti-war activist. The 1976 book, which was made into an Oscar winning film starring Tom Cruise in 1989, details Kovics period in the Vietnam War as a fierce, pro-war patriot before he became an outspoken peace activist after an injury paralysed him and he returned home to a cold reception. Forty years ago the Vietnam vet from Massapequawounded in combat and in a wheelchair ever sincepublished his classic war memoir, later made into a film with Tom Cruise. The anniversary edition features a foreword by Bruce Springsteen. Kovics new book,?