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title: "Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War"
brand: "peter maslowskidon winslow"
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# Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War

**Brand:** peter maslowskidon winslow
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- **What is this?** Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War by peter maslowskidon winslow
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Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shipped timely
*by A***T on April 12, 2025*

The book arrived on time and in good condition.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hooper: A man who epitomized the Vietnam conflict.
*by S***E on April 26, 2009*

This is a masterfully researched and written account of the Vietnam War era which makes use of the life of Joe Hooper to illustrate that period of time and the conflict. The formidible team of Maslowski and Winslow are a pair of guides who take you through the jungles of Southeast Asia, the tumultuous politics and social upheavals of America during the 60s and early 70s, and the world of the combat soldier. They periodically stop the narrative to explore such crucial topics as the psychology of human bravery and motivation under the extreme duress of combat, the volatility and subjectivity of memory, and the Cold War mindset of the 1960s. Against this backdrop is woven the checkered life of Joe Hooper: a valiant warrior, womanizer, drinker--a man who could never quite adjust to normal human society. For any student of the Vietnam War era, this book should be essential reading. Maslowski examines the policies and motivations of the three American presidents, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, who pursued the Vietnam debacle; they are each excoriated for the cock-sure macho attitude of their era, their misguided policies, their isolation from and neglect of intelligent voices that could have significantly altered the course of what ultimately became the first big military disaster in American history. Simply put, Maslowski and Winslow--to use a turn of phrase prevalent in the Vietnam Era--tell it like it is.

### ⭐⭐⭐ An Unlikely Path to Heroism Contrasted With a Studious Critique of the War in Viet Nam
*by F***Y on October 2, 2020*

I served in the same unit with Sgt. Hooper in Panama prior to his (and my) deployment to Viet Nam and found it interesting to follow his experiences leading up to his earning the MOH. Because we served in different sectors of VN, I could not directly relate to his experiences. However, I was disappointed that the authors worked so diligently to expose Hooper's human frailties. It seemed they wanted to disqualify him as not being really worthy of acclaim. I also wasn't pleased with the writers' studious "disdain" for the way in which the war was "prosecuted." I well remember the war as being highly controversial during (and after) that time, but I feel that disdain should have recorded in a separate publication and not "merged" with an account of one man's trials and victories.

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