The Devin-Adair Publishing Company (1911–1981) was an American conservative

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History

Henry Garrity created the publishing house in 1911 in New York City. His son Devin Garrity inherited it in 1939. It moved from New York City to

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, in 1970. Devin Garrity was also featured in the

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, ''Answers for Americans'', which aired briefly in the 1953-1954 television season. Originally known for publication of Irish poetry and books on popular

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, Devin-Adair began to focus on anti-Communist,

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, and libertarian books for the political movement that eventuated in the election of

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Ronald Reagan. The principal publishers of such books were Devin-Adair, Caxton Publishers (Idaho),

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(Chicago), Western Islands (Boston), and

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(Connecticut). Garrity managed to have friends across the broad spectrum of the American right from ''

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'', '' American Opinion'', ''

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'', and ''

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Titles

Irish titles: * J. Breckenridge Ellis: ''The Woodneys: An American Family'' (1914) * Humphrey Joseph Desmond: ''Why God Loves the Irish'' (1918) *

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: ''The Man Who Invented Sin and Other Stories'' (1948) * Sean O'Faolain: ''The Irish: A Character Study'' (1949) * Sean O'Faolain: ''A Summer in Italy'' (1950) * Daniel Corkery: ''The wager, and other stories'', illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers (1950) * Sean O'Faolain: ''The Short Story'' (1951) * Sean O'Faolain: ''Newman's Way': The Odyssey of

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'' (1952) * Sean O'Faolain: ''An Autumn in Italy'' (1953) * Thomas J. Kiernan: ''The White Hound of the Mountain, and Other Irish Folk Tales'', illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers (1962) Anti-communist titles: * ''The

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Myth'' (1948) * ''The Road Ahed: America's Creeping Revolution'' (1949) * ''While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'' (1951) * Elizabeth Bentley: ''Out of Bondage: The Elizabeth Bentley Story'' (1951) *

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: ''One is a Crowd'' (1952) * ''The Lattimore Story'' (1955) * ''The Decline of the American Republic, and How to Rebuild It'' (1955) * Bernardo Teixeira: ''The Fabric of Terror: Three Days in Angola'' (1965) * Julius Epstein: ''Operation Keelhaul: The Story of Forced Repatriation from 1944 to the Present'' (1973) American Naturalist Series titles: * ''John Burroughs' America: Selections from the writings of the Hudson River naturalist'' (1952) * ''Ernest Thompson Seton's America : selections from the writings of the artist-naturalist'' (1954) * ''Theodore Roosevelt's America. Selections from the writings of the Oyster Bay naturalist'' (1955) * ''John and William Bartram's America : selections from the writings of the Philadelphia naturalists'' (1957) * ''A Naturalist in Alaska'' by Adolph Murie (1961) * '' Other Edens : the sketchbook of an artist naturalist'' by John Henry Dick (1979)

References

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External links

Devin A. Garrity papers

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Devin-Adair: Webster's Timeline History 1912 - 1999
Publishing companies of the United States Publishing companies established in 1911 Companies based in Fairfield County, Connecticut Conservative media in the United States