Ketchum, Richard M.

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KETCHUM, Richard M.

KETCHUM, Richard M. American, b. 1922. Genres: History, Biography. Career: Editorial Director, Book Division, American Heritage Publishing Co., NYC, 1956-74; Ed., Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, 1974-84. Publications: What Is Communism?, 1955; Male Husbandry, 1956; American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places, 1957; Four Days, 1964; Faces from the Past, 1970; The Secret Life of the Forest, 1970; The Winter Soldiers, 1973; Will Rogers, 1973; George Washington, 1974; Decisive Day, 1974; Second Cutting: Letters from the Country, 1981; The Borrowed Years, 1938-1941: America on the Way to War, 1989; Saratoga: Turning Point of the American Revolutionary War, 1997; Divided Loyalties, 2002. EDITOR: What Is Democracy?, 1955; American Heritage Book of the Revolution, 1958; American Heritage Book of the Pioneer Spirit, 1959; American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, 1960; The Horizon Book of the Renaissance, 1961; The Battle for Bunker Hill, 1962; The Original Watercolor Paintings by John James Audubon for the Birds of America.