the political autobiography of a college professor : typescript, circa 1999 Griffiths, Gordon 1914- creator mixed material |||| |||| monographic eng 2 1 0.2 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. Open to research. Historian. Collection material in English. Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist 1888- Chevalier, Haakon 1902-1985 Dyer-Bennet, John 1915-2002 Dyer-Bennet, Richard Griffiths, Mary 1916- May, Kenneth O. (Kenneth Ownsworth) 1915- Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 United States. Board of Economic Warfare. United States. Foreign Economic Administration. Communist Party of Great Britain. Communist Party of the United States of America. University of California, Berkeley. University of Oxford. University of Washington. Communism Great Britain Communism United States Loyalty oaths World War, 1939-1945 Economic aspects Europe Historiography Historians mm2004085104 Open to research. DLC 040211 20260227111730.0 mm2004085104