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1) Lafayette: lessons in leadership from the idealist general

Author

Leepson, Marc

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

2) Saving Monticello: the Levy family's epic quest to rescue the house that Jefferson built

Author

Leepson, Marc

Publisher

Free Press

Pub. Date

[2001]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Adult Reference

3) Flag: an American biography

Author

Leepson, Marc

Publisher

Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

4) 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

Author

Leepson, Marc

Publisher

Stackpole Books

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

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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...