== Article needs improvement == 

 This article is in need of much work, including addition of an Infobox, heavy-handed copy editing and wikification (conformity to WP:STYLE), reorganization, references for the content (WP:CITE), and editorial balance (WP:NPOV). It reads like most it was written by the subject's PR rep, but one who is in serious need of a good copy editor. 

 For the record, I am not anti-Lear. To the contrary, I was a charter member of People for the American Way, which Lear co-founded in the 1980s, have been a "card-carrying member" of the American Civil Liberties Union for over 35 years, am a registered Democrat (I consistently describe myself as a McGovern Democrat and worked in his presidential campaign), am anti-war (I counseled draft resisters during the Vietnam War), and am Jewish. I think Lear deserves a much WP article than this one. Unfortunately, I do not have sufficient time to undertake the job. I hope that others will choose to do so.