Venturing outside the ivory tower
Subtitle: the political autobiography of a college professor
Language: eng
Subjects: Historiography; United States. Foreign Economic Administration; Communist Party of the United States of America; Communism; University of Washington; Communist Party of Great Britain; United States. Board of Economic Warfare; United States; Berkeley University of California; World War, 1939-1945; Loyalty oaths; University of Oxford; Economic aspects
Description: Memoir relating chiefly to Griffiths' membership and activities in the communist party while a student and historian at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington in Seattle, and the University of Oxford in England. Discusses loyalty oaths and his participation, along with Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Haakon Chevalier, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, in the faculty communist group at Berkeley. Other individuals represented include  Kenneth May, John and Richard Dyer-Bennet, and Griffiths' wife Mary. Outlines his work during World War II with the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Economic Administration and his career as a historian of modern Europe. Second partial copy includes an additional chapter.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, David Griffiths, 2003.

Historian.

Collection material in English.