
GO Discrete Mathematics
Author: Albert D. Otto, Charles Vanden Eynden, John A. Dossey, Lawrence E. Spence
Type: eBook
Language: English
Released: 2001
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Page Count: 639
Format: djvu
ISBN-10: 0321079124
ISBN-13: 9780321079121
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From A massive biography presents the eventful, too-short, tragic life of Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper, the most decorated soldier of the Vietnam War. Hooper began as the classic working-class boy, athletic (not to say with a chip on his shoulder), and with uncertain prospects, who joins the army. He went to Vietnam in the 101st Airborne and appears to have been a natural infantryman (Maslowski and Winslow cite Audie Murphy in comparison), effective individually and as a leader in a variety of combat situations. Whether he actually did everything he was supposed to have done in the way the army said he did is controversial, and the authors expend a great many pages evaluating all the controversies, never giving the army much credit but also never attacking Hooper. Hooper's postwar life was marred by PTSD and alcoholism; he eventually died of alcohol-related causes and is buried in Arlington Cemetery. Maslowski and Winslow's extreme thoroughness offsets their antimilitary bias and makes their work a more than respectable contribution to the Vietnam War literature. Roland GreenCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review "Looking For a Hero is an extraordinary feat of biographical reconstruction, as well as a powerful, poignant account of a nation at war. The tale of Joe Hooper''s turbulent life and sad death transcends the story of America''s most decorated Vietnam veteran to become a meditation about heroism, manhood, and the true cost of combat."—Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Army at Dawn (Rick Atkinson )"I was totally caught up in the story; reading it is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I wish I had written this book. It is daring and it is original."—Roger J. Spiller, George C. Marshall Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (Roger J. Spiller )"Peter Maslowski and Don Winslow''s meditation on heroism and the Vietnam experience is a truly original book. Its protagonist is not one of the great and good, but a humble ''grunt.'' . . . Looking for a Hero has a highly sophisticated structure that is developed with great skill. Maslowski and Winslow bind onto Hooper''s modest life a history of the Vietnam era that assumes the form of a moral tale and operates at a number of levels."—Times Literary Supplement (Times Literary Supplement )“A stinging indictment of the government’s treatment of veterans of our most recent wars.”—Vietnam Veterans of America (Vietnam Veterans of America )
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