Background
MacBride was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1929. He called himself "the adopted grandson" of a family friend, writer and political theorist Rose Wilder Lane, whom he met for the first time when he was 14 years of age. Lane - the daughter of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was noted for writing the Little House series of books - designated MacBride as as a "political disciple", as well as her executor and sole heir.
MacBride was a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
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