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Charlton Ogburn

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We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by
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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
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Ogburn was married twice. With his first wife, he had one son, Charlton Ogburn, III). The couple divorced, after which Charlton III's name was changed by his mother to William Fielding Ogburn. He was later known as Will Aldis. Ogburn, Jr. then married Vera M. Weidman in 1951, with whom he had two
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would not "wilt" under the impact of U.S. aid to the colonial French forces, and that any military victory would simply send Ho's troops "underground until a more propitious occasion presented itself". Ogburn also unsuccessfully opposed the U.S. policy of supporting the Vietnamese monarchy of
116:(15 March 1911 – 19 October 1998) was an American writer, most notably of memoirs and non-fiction works. Before he established himself as a writer he served in the US army, and then as a State Department official, specialising in South-East Asian affairs. 417:(1550–1604). Although the justices held in favor of the traditional account of authorship, Justice Stevens later wrote an article supporting Ogburn's position, "The Shakespeare Canon of Statutory Construction", 334:. It told the story of an elderly man and his teenage granddaughter battling to preserve their way of life, threatened by greedy relatives and a dangerous storm. Another book for young adults was 715: 1150: 1135: 750: 708: 797: 530: 578:
Fischer, Michael, "Autobiograbbical Voices (1, 2, 3) and Mosaic Memory Experimental Sondages in the (Post)modern World", in Ashley, Gilmore, Peters (ed),
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said, "Ogburn has written a most extraordinary book... he is a very sensitive, reflective writer in the Thoreauvian tradition". In 1976, his book,
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reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
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Ogburn also wrote fiction. He began his literary career with "The White Falcon", a story published by Houghton Mifflin in 1955. His short novel
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Failing health in later years led to Ogburn's death in 1998. His papers are kept in archives at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Ogburn was among the first State Department officials to explicitly oppose the growing U.S. involvement in the
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documentary on the authorship question narrated by Al Austin, and mock trials in the U.S. and Britain.
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question, continuing the passion of his parents, who had written several books on the topic including
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offered an advance for a book and he left the government to write on a full-time basis in 1957.
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and writer Dorothy Ogburn née Stevens. His uncle was the sociologist
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This Star of England: "William Shakes-speare" Man of the Renaissance
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and the commanding officer frequently mentioned in Ogburn's book
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Today Ogburn is best known for several books and articles on the
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In fact it is from the magazine article "Merrill's Marauders" (
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A series on alternative authorship theories for the works of
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The first Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis
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The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality
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In his later years he was best known as an advocate of the
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Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
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Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers: 50 Strategic Rules
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After the success of his story "Merrill's Marauders", a
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Emory University: Charlton Ogburn papers, 1898-1994
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He returned to the US to begin a career with the 91: 83: 75: 56: 30: 23: 471:(San Antonio, TX: Naylor Co., 1963), a book about 319:was published with drawings by Matthew Kalmenoff. 751:History of the Shakespeare authorship question 709: 166:, most notably as communications officer for 8: 1151:United States Army personnel of World War II 151:in 1932 and wrote and worked in publishing. 635:, University of Georgia Press, 2010, P.251. 516:Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, 1136:Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship 716: 702: 694: 633:Bibliography of Georgia Authors, 1949-1965 121:Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship 20: 16:American journalist and author (1911-1998) 849:List of Shakespeare authorship candidates 385:More than a thousand people attended the 643: 641: 489: 430:; inspired a succession of articles in 649:Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? 561: 559: 240:(1959), a first person account of the 420:University of Pennsylvania Law Review 7: 603: 601: 595:, Adams Media, Avon, MA., 2001, p.40 565:Brown, D.S., "Petronius or Ogburn", 501: 499: 497: 495: 493: 185:, which would later evolve into the 415:Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford 221:daughters, Nyssa and Holly Ogburn. 270:inefficiency, and demoralization. 106:The Mysterious William Shakespeare 14: 1121:American male non-fiction writers 689:Charlton Ogburn papers, 1898-1994 580:Autobiography & Postmodernism 450:Uncovering Shakespeare: An Update 1146:Shakespeare authorship theorists 1111:20th-century American memoirists 776: 672: 426:Ogburn's book reinvigorated the 261:are frequently misattributed to 1141:John Burroughs Medal recipients 768:Declaration of Reasonable Doubt 756:Shakespeare attribution studies 725:Shakespeare authorship question 651:. 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Bonner, Jr., 376:, followed by a 1987 280: 267: 205:cover story in 1957, 160:military intelligence 940:Ignatius L. Donnelly 762:Is Shakespeare Dead? 687:, Emory University: 297:John Burroughs Medal 1010:John Denham Parsons 985:Sandra Day O'Connor 859:Christopher Marlowe 736:William Shakespeare 620:The Saturday Review 537:. 22 October 1998. 473:Merrill's Marauders 391:American University 328:young adult fiction 313:Roger Tory Peterson 251:Merrill's Marauders 183:First Indochina War 168:Merrill's Marauders 139:. He was raised in 114:Charlton Ogburn Jr. 1025:William Rubinstein 407:William J. Brennan 389:case sponsored by 370:William F. 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Atlanta, Georgia
Beaufort, South Carolina
Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship
Charlton Greenwood Ogburn
William Fielding Ogburn
Savannah
New York City
Harvard University
World War II
military intelligence
China Burma India Theater
Merrill's Marauders
captain
State Department
First Indochina War
Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh
Bảo Đại
Harper & Bros.
Burma Campaign
World War II
Merrill's Marauders
quotation
Petronius
John Burroughs Medal
Stewart Udall
Roger Tory Peterson
young adult fiction
Evaline Ness
Joe Krush

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