John Adair (author) John Adair (author) Professor John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership. Adair was born in Luton and educated at St Paul's School before undertaking his National Service as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1953 to 1955. Unusually, he served as adjutant of a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and was briefly in command of the garrison of Jerusalem in the front line. He also studied at Hull Nautical College (where
John Hersey wrote Hersey. "The memory of what happened at Hiroshima". John Hersey has been called a "compulsive plagiarist." For instance, he used complete paragraphs from the James Agee biography by Laurence Bergreen in his own "New Yorker" essay about Agee. Half of his book, "Men on Bataan" came from work filed for "Time" by Melville Jacoby and his wife. A longtime resident of Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts – chronicled in his 1987 work "Blues" – John Hersey died at his winter home in Key West, Florida, on March 24, 1993 at the compound he and his wife shared with his