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Ballad of the Green Beret - The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death (Paperback)
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Ballad of the Green Beret - The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death (Paperback)
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The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop
star Barry Sadler The top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn't
The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black" or the Beatles' "Yellow
Submarine"--it was "The Ballad of the Green Berets," a
hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam
veteran, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. But Sadler's
clean-cut, all-American image hid a darker side, a Hunter
Thompson-esque life of booze, girls, and guns. Unable to score
another hit song, he wrote a string of popular pulp fiction
paperbacks that made "Rambo look like a stroll through Disneyland."
He killed a lover's ex-boyfriend in Tennessee. Settling in Central
America, Sadler ran guns, allegedly trained guerrillas, provided
medical care to residents, and caroused at his villa. In 1988 he
was shot in the head in Guatemala and died a year later. This
life-and-times biography of an American pop culture phenomenon
recounts the sensational details of Sadler's life vividly but
soberly, setting his meteoric rise and tragic fall against the big
picture of American society and culture during and after the
Vietnam War.
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