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Revision as of 23:27, 9 June 2005 by Tony Sidaway (talk | contribs) (basic stub. How did this guy's bio get deleted? Weird!)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Robin Moore (October 31, 1925-) is a writer who authored the lyrics of Ballad of the Green Berets, and the books The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy and, with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Moore attended Middlesex School, Belmont Hill School. He flew combat missions over Germany in the closing months of World War II, and graduated from Harvard College in 1949. He worked in television production and then on Sheraton Hotel Company co-founded by his father. Working in the hotel business in the Caribbean he recorded the early days of Castro in the non-fiction book The Devil To Pay. Connections with his Harvard classmate Robert F. Kennedy, led to his joining US Special Forces in a civilian role and writing a book about the Green Berets.
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Bibliography
- The Devil To Pay (ISBN 1879915022)
- The Green Berets (ISBN 0312984928)
- The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy (ISBN 1592280447)
- The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (ISBN 0060014164)
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