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Book Review: ‘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’ by Marc Leepson

Biographer tells the story of an iconic pro-military song and its effect on the soldier who wrote it and took it to the top single in the nation

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Opera Review: ‘Glory Denied’ by Tom Cipullo at the Chelsea Opera (NYC)

Forceful, wrenching, and thought-provoking, 'Glory Denied' with a number of productions under its belt still deserves further exposure in our age of constant war, with the lessons of Vietnam yet to be learned. It should be considered one of the major operas of the 21st century so far.

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