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Guide to the John Gerassi Papers, 1979-1983, 2000s

Title: Guide to the John Gerassi Papers, 1979-1983, 2000s

Journalist and scholar John ("Tito") Gerassi received his MA at Columbia University and earned his doctorate at the London School of Economics. Among his publications are <i>The Great Fear in Latin America</i> (1965), <i>The Boys of Boise</i> (1966), and the biography <i>Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century</i> (1989). <i>The Premature Anti-Fascists: Oral History of American and Canadian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War</i> was published in 1986, and is a tribute to the men and women who volunteered to fight on behalf of the Spanish Republic. This collection consists chiefly of full transcriptions of 65 of the oral histories that were conducted for Gerassi's project (with supporting research materials) and unprocessed materials relating to Gerassi's research on Jean-Paul Sartre.

ArchivalResource: 11.25 linear feet in 10 manuscript boxes and 7 record cartons

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Guide to the John Gerassi Papers, 1979-1983, 2000s

Title: Guide to the John Gerassi Papers, 1979-1983, 2000s

Journalist and scholar John ("Tito") Gerassi received his MA at Columbia University and earned his doctorate at the London School of Economics. Among his publications are <i>The Great Fear in Latin America</i> (1965), <i>The Boys of Boise</i> (1966), and the biography <i>Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century</i> (1989). <i>The Premature Anti-Fascists: Oral History of American and Canadian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War</i> was published in 1986, and is a tribute to the men and women who volunteered to fight on behalf of the Spanish Republic. This collection consists chiefly of full transcriptions of 65 of the oral histories that were conducted for Gerassi's project (with supporting research materials) and unprocessed materials relating to Gerassi's research on Jean-Paul Sartre.

ArchivalResource: 11.25 linear feet in 10 manuscript boxes and 7 record cartons

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John Gerassi Oral History Collection, 1980

Title: John Gerassi Oral History Collection 1980

Journalist and scholar John ("Tito") Gerassi received his MA at Columbia University and earned his doctorate at the London School of Economics. Among his publications are The Great Fear in Latin America (1965), The Boys of Boise (1966), and the biography Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century, (1989). The Premature Anti-Fascists: Oral History of American and Canadian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War was published in 1986, and is a tribute to the men and women who volunteered to fight on behalf of the Spanish Republic. This collection contains 227 audiocassettes consisting of 89 separate interviews with individual veterans that were conducted for Gerassi's project.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear feet; (227 audiocassette tapes)

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Gerassi, John. John Gerassi oral history collection, 1980.

Title: John Gerassi oral history collection, 1980.

This collection contains 227 audiocassettes consisting of 89 separate interviews with individual veterans. The average taping session was 7 hours and there are multiple tapes associated with most of the interviews. The interviews cover the following topics: family background and political affiliations, their motivations for joining the International Brigades, experiences and impressions of Spain, instances of discrimination and harassment during WWII and subsequently during the McCarthy era. Included are oral history interviews with the following individuals: Bill Bailey, Alvah Bessie, Robert Colodny, Archie Brown, Walter Dent, Milt Felsen, Moe Fishman, John Gates, Carl Geiser, Robert Gladnick, Irving Goff, Syd Harris, Ocsar Hunter, Admiral Kilpatrick, Edward Lending, Vincent Lossowski, Carl Marzani, John Murra, Steve Nelson, Lou Ornitz, Rosario Pistone, Herman Rosenstein (a.k.a. Gabby Klein), Walter Scheutrum, Morris Stamm, Robert Steck, George Watt, Irving Weissman, and Milton Wolff. Although the oral history interviews were chiefly conducted with combat veterans, there are also several interviews with women who like Salaria Kee O'Reilly, Nan Green, and Rose Wachsman Sorkin, who served in the medical units or, in the lone case of Evelyn Hutchins, as a driver. The collection also includes three tapes with spoken research notes that Gerassi recorded during his visits to libraries and archives at Brandies University, Cleveland University, and the Toronto Public Library, as well as a tape of the Veteran's of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 43rd Anniversary event honoring African-American volunteers. An additional tape documents Gerassi's contract with Ray Villis, his principal interviewer on the project.

ArchivalResource: 227 sound cassettes.

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Sydney Harris Papers, 1940s-1983

Title: Sydney Harris Papers 1940s-1983

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet; (3 boxes)

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