The Devin-Adair Publishing Company (1911–1981) was an American conservative
publishing house.
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
Old Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1970.
Devin Garrity was also featured in the
ABC television series, ''Answers for Americans'', which aired briefly in the 1953-1954 television season.
Originally known for publication of
Irish poetry
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and books on popular
ornithology, Devin-Adair began to focus on
anti-Communist
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,
conservative, and
libertarian
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books for the
political movement
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that eventuated in the election of
President Ronald Reagan
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. The principal publishers of such books were Devin-Adair,
Caxton Publishers (Idaho),
Henry Regnery Company (Chicago),
Western Islands (Boston), and
Arlington House (Connecticut). Garrity managed to have friends across the broad spectrum of the American right from ''
Human Events'' and ''
National Review'' to ''
The Freeman
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'', ''
American Opinion
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* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
'', ''
The Review of the News'', and ''
Conservative Digest''.
Titles
Irish titles:
*
J. Breckenridge Ellis
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Biography
Mr. Ellis was born near Hannibal, Missouri, February 11, 1870, but spent most of his life in Clinton County. He was the son of John W. Ellis, PhD. and Sallie Breckenridge ...
: ''The Woodneys: An American Family'' (1914)
*
Humphrey Joseph Desmond
Humphrey Joseph Desmond (September 14, 1858February 16, 1932) was an American lawyer, writer, newspaper editor, and politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in the 1891 session, representing the part of the city of Milwaukee. ...
: ''Why God Loves the Irish'' (1918)
*
Sean O'Faolain: ''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
John Henry Newman'' (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
Roosevelt Myth'' (1948)
* ''The Road Ahed: America's Creeping Revolution'' (1949)
* ''While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'' (1951)
*
Elizabeth Bentley
Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908 – December 3, 1963) was an American spy and member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She served the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1945 until she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligenc ...
: ''Out of Bondage: The Elizabeth Bentley Story'' (1951)
*
Frank Chodorov: ''One is a Crowd'' (1952)
* ''The
Lattimore Story'' (1955)
* ''The Decline of the American Republic, and How to Rebuild It'' (1955)
*
Bernardo Teixeira
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Given name People
* Bernardo the Japanese (died 1557), early Japanese Christian convert and disciple of Saint Franc ...
: ''The Fabric of Terror: Three Days in Angola'' (1965)
*
Julius Epstein: ''Operation Keelhaul: The Story of Forced Repatriation from 1944 to the Present'' (1973)
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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 Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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- via
Online Archive of California
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