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Haunted by his father's role in Vietnam, he turned to farming to grow a new legacy
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWalnut farmer Craig McNamara in his barn in Winters, Calif. His father, Robert McNamara, secretary...
'A very fine man': Tracing the Burlington roots of Sterling Lord, literary agent extraordinaire
The Hawk Eye via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSterling Lord was many things to many people — hero to a select few struggling writers and scourge...
This Top Secret mission called for the US to attack Miami
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoColour photograph of GEN Lyman L. Lemnitzer as Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command and Supreme...
Sterling Lord, 'just a kid from Burlington' who became Jack Kerouac's literary agent, dies at 102
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSterling Lord, the uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for...
Pentagon Papers leaker weighed morality of A-bomb at Cranbrook, months before Hiroshima
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMonths before the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and revealed to the world the existence...
This Tuskegee Airman Broke Military Barriers and Survived a Plane Ejection
Biography via Yahoo News· 1 year agoClarence Lester, one of the first Black military aviators in U.S. history, was born 100 years ago...
Bob Dylan’s ‘Philosophy of Modern Song’ Cannily Mixes Music History With the Hardboiled Language of...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOf the dozens or even hundreds of singers and songwriters that Bob Dylan extols in his new book,...
What's Inside the President's Nuclear Football
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA military aide carries the "nuclear football," which contains launch codes for nuclear weapons, as he follows US President Joe Biden, not pictured, onto...
What Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' can teach us today
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 month agoBarbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” was released in January 1962. Historian Robert Massie, in the...
F-111 Aardvark's Crew Escape Module Ejected The Whole Cockpit
THE WARZONE via Yahoo News· 10 months agoMaj. Sandy Marquardt, Capt. Joe Hodges sit in the escape module of their F-111A On March 30, 1968,...