George Teeple Eggleston Papers, 1918-1985

George Teeple Eggleston was born in Oakland, California in 1906. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1929. In the late 1930s, until the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was very active in the America First movement with Charles Lindbergh. At that time, he was editor-in-chief of Scribner's Commentator, dedicated to keeping America out of war. The public outcry against the America First movement affected Eggleston. Eggleston was discharged from military service and there were rumors and threats of prosecution for treason. Eggleston was editor-in-chief of the old Life magazine, and appointed to the board of editors by Henry Luce for the new Life magazine. From 1943-1957, Eggleston was an associate editor and department editor for Reader's Digest. Eggleston's final book, published in 1979, was titled Roosevelt, Churchill, and the World War II Opposition: A Revisionist Autobiography, and was a revisionist autobiography on the opposition to America's entry into World War II.