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White collar radicals : TVA's Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy era / Aaron D. Purcell.

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They came from all corners of the country--fifteen young, idealistic, educated men and women drawn to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work for the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the first of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal projects. Mostly holding entry-level jobs, these young people be...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Purcell, Aaron D., 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2009.
Edition:1st ed.
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.
Tennessee Valley Authority.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Employees.
Radicalism.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • A fertile ground : the birth of the Tennessee Valley Authority
  • "We were a bunch of radicals" : the early years of the Knoxville Fifteen
  • Reds in the mailroom : the TVA years, 1933-1939
  • Wars at home and abroad : first investigations and second chances, 1940-1945
  • "Saw plenty" : confirmations and investigations, 1946-1947
  • "Oh, you mean the square dancing" : HUAC, the FBI, and the Remington trials, 1947-1954
  • Return to Knoxville, 1955-present.

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