Talk:William Lederer

Dead Link
There is a dead link at the end of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.139.159 (talk) 14:21, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Changed InOp external link to http://takenforranted.com/lederer-nation-sheep-40/ GeoVenturing (talk) 14:22, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

And the reason for mentioning Robert Heinlein is?
And the reason for mentioning Robert Heinlein is? -- Geo Swan 02:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Robert Heinlein attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduated in 1929, and served as an officer in the United States Navy. As a futurist, his success and writing style seems to have influenced this author who graduated later from the US Naval Academy.
 * Future history works written with Eugene Burdick with have the same theme — accidental nuclear war — with the same plot.

-66.45.145.191 22:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Was his terminal rank Commander or Captain?
The article is poor as written since it contradicts itself. Either we should accept his memoirs as a source and have him as a Captain, or not and have him as a Commander, and discuss any potential discrepancies here, not in the article itself. Rlquall 14:27, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

The NYT obituary linked to from the article, apparently produced with the assistance of one of Mr. Lederer's sons, says he retired as a Captain, and several period articles from the 1950s and 1960s (including at least one issue of the Navy's magazine All Hands) give his rank as such. From what I can tell, he was a Commander from at least Jan. 1945 (he's referred to as such in the Feb. 1945 All Hands, p.79, noting him aboard the USS Honolulu) to at least May 1946 (when he was court martialed over the collision of the Honolulu, which he was then captaining, and the submarine USS Argonaut.) He was apparently promoted to Captain by 1951. 216.243.132.128 (talk) 05:40, 2 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Anna Der-Vartanian was assigned to the Public Information Office (PIO) Pearl Harbor, then in the Territory of Hawaii.
 * Her Executive Officer was Capt. William J. Lederer and the office conducted tours to the USS Arizona Memorial GeoVenturing (talk) 14:53, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Unparallel sources
The article says
 * In "Government by Misinformation" he investigates the sources he believes lead to American foreign policy:

followed by five bullet points that are not in parallel structure, and are thus confusing. The points are a sentence without a subject, followed by four noun phrases. Someone should re-cast these five bullets into parallel structure. Anomalocaris (talk) 18:27, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I fixed this problem, which was introduced by vandalism to the first bullet on February 17, 2008. Anomalocaris (talk) 21:42, 17 February 2009 (UTC)