HEROES: End of the Adventure

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. .

—Richard E. Byrd

There was nothing static about Richard Evelyn Byrd. His family was one of the oldest of Virginia's James River plantation owners, and Dick and his brothers Harry and Tom were born with a name that rang with respectful familiarity throughout the Old Dominion. Yet Dick was different from the rest. At 15, brother Harry, older by 16 months, was already off and running, managing the family newspapers, building an apple empire, preparing for the political future that made...

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