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William H. Whyte is most often remembered by the public as the author of the Organization Man, the 1956 best-selling examination of modern American society. Urbanologists remember him as a student of urban behavior & designer of living spaces. He was both, of course, but first he was a Marine, a fact he paid homage to when he said on the jacket of The Organization Man that he "was educated at Princeton & in the United States Marine Corps at Guadalcanal." The corporate urban jungles of late-twentieth-century America were far from those of Guadalcanal that provided a sort of coming of age for Whyte. The battle for control of Guadalcanal & what Americans learned from it from the heart of William H. Whyte's memoir.William H. Whyte is the author of 'A Time of War: Remembering Guadalcanal, A Battle Without Maps', published 2000 under ISBN 9780823220076 and ISBN 0823220079.
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