White collar radicals
Subtitle: TVA's Knoxville fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy era
By: Aaron D. Purcell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572336612
Subjects: Tennessee Valley Authority -- Employees; Communist Party of the United States of America; United States. -- Congress. -- House. -- Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944); Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States -- History -- 1933-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A fertile ground : the birth of the Tennessee Valley Authority; title: "We were a bunch of radicals" : the early years of the Knoxville fifteen; title: Reds in the mailroom : the TVA years, 1933-1939; title: Wars at home and abroad : first investigations and second chances, 1940-1945; title: "Saw plenty" : confirmations and investigations, 1946-1947; title: "Oh, you mean the square dancing" : HUAC, the FBI, and the Remington trials, 1947-1954; title: Return to Knoxville, 1955-present.