Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955

Language: English

Published by Oxford University Press, 1992

0195053826 / 9780195053821

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SIGNED and warmly inscribed by the author to David and Eleanor Sacks. David was a noted British Historian at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and a longtime personal friend of 'Sig'. First Printing with complete number line. ix, 371pp. 8vo, sewn binding in blue paper over boards backed in red cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering. Foxing to top edge with a few spots to the fore edge, a bit thumbed, text unmarked with sound and square binding; DJ clean and bright with a small bline imprint to the spin eand some trivial rubbing to the tips. 'A remarkable book, not only for what is said but for how and by whom it is said. Sigmund Diamond begins with his own experience as a Ph.D. from Harvard, where, in 1954, he was withdrawn from consideration for an administrative position due to alleged past associations with the Communist party. Twenty-three years later, in the New York Review of Books, Diamond excoriated Education and Politics at Har-vard, by Seymour Martin Lipset and David Riesman, for the authors' casual exoneration of Harvard's behavior during the McCarthy era. Diamond recalled that Harvard dean McGeorge Bundy had offered to intercede in his case, but only if Diamond would agree to name his former political associates. In short, he was asked to become an FBI informer. How many others, Diamond wondered, had been put into similar po-sitions, at Harvard and elsewhere? What did his own experience suggest about university complicity with government security agencies such as the FBI and the CIA? In his current study the author takes us step by step through his own efforts to uncover at least some truths (if not 'the truth'). He focuses primarily on Harvard and Yale, in order to trace in some detail their long decades of covert cooperation. . Diamond's research makes Buckley's charges of 'ultra-liberalism' in *God and Man at Yale* look like a well-calculated deception.' (Paul Buhle review in 'History of Education Quarterly'.).

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Title
Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955
Author
Diamond, Sigmund [David Sacks Association]
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication year
1992
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VERY GOOD
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NEAR FINE
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Signed
Binding
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Language
English
ISBN 10
0195053826
ISBN 13
9780195053821
Edition
First Edition.
Item weight
35 ounces
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