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“This book will make a real contribution to the history of McCarthyism, the history of Tennessee, and the history of TVA.” —Russell B. Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee
They came from all corners of the country-fifteen young, idealistic, educated women and men drawn to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work for the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the most first of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal projects. Mostly holding entry-level jobs, these young people became friends and lovers, connecting to each other at work and through other social and political networks..
What the fifteen failed to realize used to be that these activities-union organizing and, for most, membership in the Communist Party-would plunge them into a maelstrom that would endanger, and for some, destroy their livelihoods, social standing, and careers. White Collar Radicals follows their lives from New Deal activism in the 1930s through the 1940s and 1950s government investigations into what were perceived as subversive deeds.
Aaron D. Purcell shows how this small group of TVA idealists used to be unwillingly thrust from obscurity into the national spotlight, sufferers and participants of the second one? [not sure is it is needed] Red Scare in the years following World War II. The creator brings into sharp focal point the determination of the government to target and expose alleged radicals of the 1930s throughout the early Cold War period. The book also demonstrates how the national hysteria affected individual lives.
White Collar Radicals is both a historical study and a cautionary tale. The Knoxville Fifteen, who endured the dark days of the McCarthy Era, now have their story told for the first time-a story that offers up to date-day lessons on freedom, civil liberties, and the authority of the government.
Aaron D. Purcell is an associate professor and director of special collections at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg
They came from all corners of the country-fifteen young, idealistic, educated women and men drawn to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work for the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the most first of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal projects. Mostly holding entry-level jobs, these young people became friends and lovers, connecting to each other at work and through other social and political networks..
What the fifteen failed to realize used to be that these activities-union organizing and, for most, membership in the Communist Party-would plunge them into a maelstrom that would endanger, and for some, destroy their livelihoods, social standing, and careers. White Collar Radicals follows their lives from New Deal activism in the 1930s through the 1940s and 1950s government investigations into what were perceived as subversive deeds.
Aaron D. Purcell shows how this small group of TVA idealists used to be unwillingly thrust from obscurity into the national spotlight, sufferers and participants of the second one? [not sure is it is needed] Red Scare in the years following World War II. The creator brings into sharp focal point the determination of the government to target and expose alleged radicals of the 1930s throughout the early Cold War period. The book also demonstrates how the national hysteria affected individual lives.
White Collar Radicals is both a historical study and a cautionary tale. The Knoxville Fifteen, who endured the dark days of the McCarthy Era, now have their story told for the first time-a story that offers up to date-day lessons on freedom, civil liberties, and the authority of the government.
Aaron D. Purcell is an associate professor and director of special collections at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg
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