Jack McLean is the author of "Loon: A Marine Story" (RandomHouse, 2009), a national best-selling memoir about his service as an infantry corporal in the United States Marine Corps from 1966 to 1968. In the fall of 1968, he became the first Vietnam veteran to enter Harvard University. His thirty-year marketing career began with the New York Mets as the assistant ticket manager. He subsequently held senior positions with insurance broker Johnson & Higgins in Boston, Portland, and Charlotte. He went onto become the founding managing partner of the Greater Washington (DC) Initiative. He and his wife Nina reside in Huntington,New York.