[1] During World War II he joined military intelligence, serving in the China Burma India Theater, most notably as communications officer for Merrill's Marauders.
[1] For most of Ogburn's life, his best-known work was The Marauders (1959), a first person account of the Burma Campaign in World War II.
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, inefficiency, and demoralization.
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 reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
"[7] Roger Tory Peterson said, "Ogburn has written a most extraordinary book... he is a very sensitive, reflective writer in the Thoreauvian tradition".
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.
[8] Another book for young adults was Big Caesar, illustrated by Joe Krush, a story about a boy's interest in an old truck.
Ogburn junior's last and most well-known book, The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984), led directly to an appearance on William F. Buckley's Firing Line, followed by a 1987 Frontline documentary on the authorship question narrated by Al Austin, and mock trials in the U.S. and Britain.
Three US Supreme Court justices —John Paul Stevens, Harry Blackmun and William J. Brennan—heard arguments in favor of the orthodox view of Shakespearean authorship and the Oxfordian theory that attributes the works to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604).
Ogburn's book reinvigorated the Oxfordian theory;[10] inspired a succession of articles in The New Yorker (1988), Atlantic Monthly (1991), and Harper's Magazine (1999) and provoked a nationally broadcast three-hour teleconference on the topic Uncovering Shakespeare: An Update with moderator William F. Buckley, Jr.