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
Leonard C. Lewin Merriam. Both marriages ended in divorce. Later, his "longtime companion" was Lorraine Davis. In the original 1967 publication of "The Report From Iron Mountain", written at the suggestion of Victor Navasky, Lewin was credited only as the author of the introduction to a purported government report that concluded that if a lasting peace "could be achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of society to achieve it." Some conspiracy theorists continue to believe that the book is an actual, top-secret government document, rather than a hoax or satire, despite Lewin's claims to the contrary. Lewin successfully