Bio
Richard F. Miller - Bio
For many of his twenty-seven years in the securities' industry, Miller belonged to the group of men who, in Henry David Thoreau's words, "lead lives of quiet desperation." Miller's particular desperation was to write military history.
The 1994 publication of The Civil War: The Nantucket Experience, (Wesco, 1994) co-authored with Robert F. Mooney, only intensified this longing; in 2000, Miller retired and returned to Harvard for graduate-level courses in history. He also resumed research for the book that eventually became Harvard's Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, (UPNE, 2005.) Harvard's Civil War was a Lincoln Prize '06 Finalist as well as receiving Honorable Mention for the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, '06, and the Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Regional Non-fiction, Northeast, '06.
Work on Harvard's Civil War and subsequent books was interrupted by four assignments as an embedded reporter for Talk Radio News Service, Inc. He was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk for "Shock and Awe" during OIF I (2003); with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment in Fallujah, Iraq (2005); with the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team (4th ID) in and around Baqubah, Iraq (2006); and most recently, with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at various points in eastern Afghanistan (2008.)
During these years, Miller also wrote A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War, (Potomac Books, 2005) and In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History, (UPNE, 2008.) His book, Fighting Words: Persuasive Strategies for War and Politics, (Savas/Beatie, 2010) will published this (2010) spring.
Miller is a graduate of Harvard College, '74 and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, '77.
