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Advance Man: The Life and Times of Harry Hoagland

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In 2005, Boston's Newbury Street Press published my biography of Henry Williamson Hoagland Jr. (Harry), Advance Man: The Life and Times of Harry Hoagland . In the course of his professional career, Harry was a pioneering venture capital executive and presidential advance man (for President Eisenhower), founding partner of Fidelity Ventures, and a generous and prolific philanthropist. Harry Hoagland was a venture capital success, as he was at other fields, because he worked hard to exploit opportunities, even in the face of resistance from others. For example, "General" Georges Doriot, the founder of American Research and Development Corporation (the first publicly held venture capital company), and Harry's mentor, was never particularly keen on developing new business for ARD in regions of the country outside of the Northeast U.S. But having grown up in the Rocky Mountains and on the West Coast, this was a distinct advantage Harry could give A.R.D., and he worked ha...
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Digital Equipment Corporation co-founder, Harlan E. Anderson , published his memoir, Learn, Earn & Return:  My Life as a Computer Pioneer in November of 2009.  I served as its editor and project manager. The hardcover book is about 300 pages with approximately 100 photos. Anderson writes of learning about computers and writing programs at the University of Illinois in the late 1940s, when the first stored program computes were still under construction.  Anderson shares his experience of meeting Ken Olsen at MIT’s Lincoln Lab where they built the Whirlwind computer’s core memory. And, he writes about he and Ken co-founding Digital Equipment Corporation . Anderson’s earning days were strongly related to his having been the co-founder, vice president, and board director of Digital from 1957 to 1966.  When Digital (DEC) when public in 1966, it was, according to Spencer Ante , a business writer and author of Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of V...

Sons of Granada

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Last year, I edited and project managed a novel, Sons of Granada , by Carl Jeronimo, which draws largely on the life of the Granadino poet Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), who was murdered by forces loyal to Generalissimo Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). This book is a re-imagining of Lorca's life, based loosely on the author's own experiences. Sons of Granada won a 2018 New England Book Show award for small press fiction, non-illustrated. In the words of Carl Jeronimo from the Sons of Granada blog : "My great grandfather was from   Andalusia , a small town called Jete. He was sent to Cuba in the second half of the 19th century, so my family has always considered itself Cuban. "My father, Armando Jeronimo, took our entire family to Spain in the 1970s to visit relatives he had made contact with notwithstanding the fact that Cuban travel was prohibited at that time. "In the 1990s,  I returned to Spain for the the third time ...
I'm Chris Hartman, a writer and editor from the Boston area. I've written for a wide variety of publications, including the Christian Science Monitor , Upstate Diary , and Pangyrus , and founded a weblog dedicated to the formative years of High Tech, High Tech History . Here, I will post links to my writings: past, present, and future, discuss books I've read and am reading, and anything else literary that suits my fancy. I've spent nearly twenty years in various aspects of the publishing field, have been a Vice President of Bookbuilders of Boston - the professional association for Boston publishing - and have personally authored and/or edited over a dozen books, which I will discuss in greater on this blog. Many of those books I also project managed, in that I coordinated their writers, designers, and printers, and handled various aspects of post-production, including promotion and distribution. Thanks for taking the time to visit.