Eye of the Hurricane : My Path From Darkness to Freedom

Onetime seemingly unstoppable boxing champion, victim of a false conviction for a triple homicide, and spokesperson for the wrongfully incarcerated, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is a controversial twentieth century icon. In this moving narrative, Dr. Carter tells of the metaphoric and physical prisons he has survived: his poverty-stricken childhood, his troubled adolescence and early adulthood, his 19-year imprisonment with 10 years in solitary confinement, and the knowledge that his life was forever altered by injustice. A spiritual as well as factual autobiography, his is not a comfortable story or a comfortable philosophy, but he offers hope for those who have none, and his words are a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Eye of the Hurricane may well change the way we view crime and punishment in the twenty-first century. Eye of the My Path from Darkness to Freedom is a self-portrait of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a twentieth-century icon and controversial victim of the U.S. justice system turned spokesperson for the wrongfully convicted. In this moving narrative Dr. Carter tells of all the "prisons" he has survived--from his childhood through his wrongful incarceration and after. A spiritual as well as a factual autobiography, Eye of the Hurricane explores Carter's personal philosophy, born of the unimaginable duress of wrongful imprisonment and conceived through his defiance of the brutal institution of prison and ten years of solitary confinement.His is not a comfortable story or a comfortable philosophy, but it offers hope for those who have none and serves as a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Eye of the Hurricane may well change the way we view crime and punishment in the twenty-first century. Tells The Story Of Carter's Spiritual Journey During His Twenty Years Of Imprisonment And Afterward, Detailing The Battles He Has Fought And Continues To Fight On Behalf Of The Wrongly Convicted. 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. Rubin Hurricane Carter With Ken Klonsky ; Foreword By Nelson Mandela. Includes Index.