Un-American activities : the trials of William Remington / Gary May.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

May, Gary, 1944- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Remington, William Walter, 1917-1954--Trials, litigation, etc.

Remington, William Walter.

Trials (Perjury)--United States.

Trials (Perjury).

Trials (Espionage)--United States.

Trials (Espionage).

Communists--United States--Biography.

Communists.

Communist trials--United States.

Communist trials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1948, William W. Remington was one of the bright young men in the Truman administration. He was tall and handsome, a product of Dartmouth and Columbia. From 1940 on, he had risen through government ranks, serving on wartime boards, the President's Council of Economic Advisors, and eventually as a major official in the Department of Commerce, with a promising future ahead. By 1954, however, Remington was dead--assassinated in his cell by a team of inmates in a high-security Federal prison.In Un-American Activities, historian Gary May tells the fascinating story of William Remington--a story

Contents:

Cover; Contents; 1. Present in the Flesh; 2. The New Student-Dartmouth, 1934-1936; 3. Enfant Terrible-Knoxville, 1936-1937; 4. A Square Character-Dartmouth, 1937-1938; 5. Flirting with Danger-Dartmouth, 1938-1939; 6. Renegades; 7. Obliging a Lady; 8. Fighting Back; 9. Sorry about Everything; 10. A Marked Man; 11. No Peace; 12. Tool of Tyranny; 13. Scene of the Crime; 14. Missionary Work; 15. Not in This Day and Time; 16. Object of Hate, Engine of Destruction; 17. A Lot to Explain; 18. The Only Verdict Possible; 19. His Own Worst Enemy; 20. The Ends of Expediency

Epilogue: In Dubious and Ambiguous BattleNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-375) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771748-9

1-280-59352-0

9786613623355

0-19-993815-6

OCLC:

780535959