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

Exposes the destruction of academic careers—and the complicity of educational institutions—in McCarthy's America

The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis tells the true tale of a mathematician who found himself taking an involuntary break from chalking equations to sit opposite a row of self-righteous anti-Communist congressmen at the height of the McCarthy era. Courageously asserting the First Amendment to confront a system rapidly descending into fascism, Davis testified before the Hous...