TY  - GEN
AU  - Griffiths,Gordon
TI  - Venturing outside the ivory tower: the political autobiography of a college professor 
KW  - Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist,
KW  - Chevalier, Haakon,
KW  - Dyer-Bennet, John,
KW  - Dyer-Bennet, Richard.
KW  - Griffiths, Mary,
KW  - May, Kenneth O.
KW  - Oppenheimer, J. Robert,
KW  - United States
KW  - Board of Economic Warfare
KW  - Foreign Economic Administration
KW  - Communist Party of Great Britain
KW  - Communist Party of the United States of America
KW  - University of California, Berkeley
KW  - University of Oxford
KW  - University of Washington
KW  - Communism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Loyalty oaths
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Europe
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Historians
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
ER  -