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In 1948, William W. Remington Was One Of The Bright Young Men In The Truman Administration. He Was Tall And Handsome, A Product Of Dartmouth And Columbia. From 1940 On, He Had Risen Through Government Ranks, Serving On Wartime Boards, The President's Council Of Economic Advisors, And Eventually As A Major Official In The Department Of Commerce, With A Promising Future Ahead. By 1954, However, Remington Was Dead--assassinated In His Cell By A Team Of Inmates In A High-security Federal Prison. In Un-american Activities, Historian Gary May Tells The Fascinating Story Of William Remington--a Story Of Intrigue, Injustice, Government Corruption, And Anti-communist Hysteria. May Labored For Eight Years In Reconstructing Remington's Case, Searching Through Fbi Files, Government Documents, And Waging An Epic Battle Against Then-u.s. Attorney Rudy Guiliani To Become The First Historian To Obtain Access To Grand Jury Records. The Result Is A Brilliant Account Of One Man's Tragic Odyssey And A Government Run Amok. Remington's Future Collapsed In 1948, When He Was Charged With Being A Communist And A Soviet Spy. The Accuser Was Elizabeth Bentley, An Admitted Ex-communist Herself And A Former Courier For Soviet Spymasters. Remington's Life Fell Into A Whirlpool, As He Fought Government Improprieties, Illegalities, And The Assumption He Was Guilty. Cleared By Government Loyalty Boards, He Was Indicted By A Grand Jury--whose Foreman Was Secretly Helping Elizabeth Bentley Prepare Her Memoirs. Remington Suffered Through Two Trials For Perjury, And The Chief Witness Against Him Was His Own Embittered Ex-wife. He Was Convicted And Sentenced To The Federal Penitentiary At Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Where His Reputation As A Communist Preceded Him. But May's Account Also Offers Fascinating Insight Into The Depth Of Soviet Penetration Into Wartime America: As He Follows Remington's Life, From The Radical Circles At Dartmouth And The Tennessee Valley Authority In The 1930s Through His Washin