About the book
Rubin Carter was a boxer with a real chance at the world middleweight title when a shooting in a bar ended that hope. James S. Hirsch tells how Carter was charged with three murders he did not commit and spent long years in prison. The biography looks at the part race played in his trial, the celebrities who took up his cause, and a high profile campaign for his release that failed. It also follows a group of Canadians who set out to help him prove his innocence. Hirsch presents Carter as a man who learned to live with his own rage.
Ryan Holiday saw parallels with Stoicism in Carter's insistence on remaining himself even in prison, and singled out his refusal to sue the government once his wrongful conviction was overturned.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
Hurricane Carter’s biography is about a man who refused to be anything but himself—even in prison. There are great parallels to his personal struggles to maintain the sovereignty of self amidst awful circumstances and the lessons of Stoicism. My favorite: how he refused to sue the government after his wrongful conviction was overturned because it’d be saying that they’d taken something from him, that he was still dependent on them which even after decades in prison he refused to resign himself to accepting.
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