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Title: Although a fan of Cooper, can't recommend this book
Review: Save your money and read the excerpt in Vanity F. magazine. I really wanted to like this book as I am a fan of Mr. Cooper's style of reporting. In this book he reports on various wars he happened to be front and center. They seem to run in to each other and as hard as I tried to be engaged in the stories I found the writing style too clinical. Mr. Cooper does not discuss his personal life only the effects of his father's death and his brother's suicide. He tries, unsuccessfully to intergrate those deaths into the stories of death that war causes. If one is going to write a biography one should discuss one's life and address some of the questions circulating (i.e his homosexuality). Hopefully, Mr. Cooper will one day write a serious autobiography. This isn't it. The excerpt in Vanity F. sums up the book and is all you really need.
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