David A. Shannon Papers, 1955-1958

Container Title
Series: Manuscript Drafts
Box   1
Unedited manuscript
Later chapter drafts without revisions
Box   2
Folder   1
Preface, Part I: Chapter I, “New Leader and New Line”
Box   2
Folder   2
Chapter II, “Party Line for America”
Box   2
Folder   3
Chapter III, “Party Organization, Party Strength, and Party Life”
Box   2
Folder   4
Part II: Chapter IV, “Creating Gideon's Army-the Progressive Party”
Box   2
Folder   5
Chapter V, “Professional Soldiers in a Campaign that Failed”
Box   2
Folder   6
Part III: Chapter VI, “The Party and Anti-Communism” [Chapter VII missing]
Box   2
Folder   7
Part IV: Chapter VIII, “Slow Thaw in the Cold War”
Box   2
Folder   8
Chapter IX, “Tarnished Heroes: Stalin and Foster”
Box   2
Folder   9
Chapter X, “Hungary and Further Disillusion”
Box   2
Folder   10
Chapter XI, “Conclusion: An Impotent Party”
Box   2
Folder   11
Footnotes
Box   2
Folder   12
Bibliographical Essay
Early chapter drafts without revisions
Box   2
Folder   13
Preface and Chapter I
Box   2
Folder   14
Chapter II, “Domestic Line”
Box   2
Folder   15
Chapter III, “The Party's organization, activities and special problems in the immediate postwar period”
Drafts with revisions by persons other than Shannon
Box   3
Folder   1
Preface, Chapters I through Chapter II with drafter's comments
Box   3
Folder   2
Preface, Chapters I through III with Olive Golden's comments
Drafts with revisions by Shannon
Box   3
Folder   3
Preface and Chapter I
Box   3
Folder   4
Chapter II, “The Domestic Line”
Box   3
Folder   5
Chapter III, “The Party's Organization, Activities and Special Problems in the Immediate Postwar Period”
Box   3
Folder   6
Beginning for Part II, notes: Chapter IV, “Professional Soldiers in Gideon's Army”
Box   3
Folder   7
Chapter V, “The Outward Reaction”
Box   3
Folder   8
“A very tentative and incomplete outline or prospectus of a book on the history of the Communist Party, 1945-circa 1955,” February 24, 1956