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The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom by Steve Batterson

Monthly Review Press, 2023, 200 pp, US$ 26.00

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Notes

  1. Banff International Research Center will be abbreviated BIRS and the House Un-American Activities Committee by HUAC.

  2. For more details about the workshop, see https://www.birs.ca/events/2010/5-day-workshops/10w5057. Chandler and I had organized several BIRS workshops on much the same theme and edited, with Jan Zwicky, an anthology of work presented at them.

  3. She, in turn, has contributed a succinct and helpful foreword to this book.

  4. The Mathematical Intelligencer 36:1 (2014) was issued in honor of Chandler Davis.

References

  1. Sheldon Axler et al. Remembrances of Chandler Davis (1926–2022). Notices of the American Mathematical Society, August, 2023, 1107–1119.

  2. Chandler Davis. The Purge. In A Century of Mathematics in America: Part I, edited by Peter Duren, pp. 413–428. American Mathematical Society, 1988.

  3. Josh Lukin, editor. It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Aqueduct Press, 2010.

  4. Ellen Schrecker. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Oxford University Press, 1986.

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Senechal, M. The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom by Steve Batterson. Math Intelligencer (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-024-10343-4

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