The Devin-Adair Publishing Company was an American

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 publishing house created in 1911 by Henry Garrity. Its leadership was inherited in 1939 by Devin Garrity, son of the founder, and the firm known for publication of Irish poetry

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 and books on popular ornithology

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 began to focus on anti-Communist

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, conservative

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, and libertarian

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 books for the political movement that eventuated in the election of President

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 Ronald Reagan

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. The principal publishers of such books were Devin-Adair, Caxton Publishers (Idaho), Henry Regnery Company

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 (Chicago), Western Islands

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 (Boston), and Arlington House

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

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and National Review

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to The Freeman

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, American Opinion, The Review of the News, and Conservative Digest.

The publisher was originally based in New York City

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, but later moved to Old Greenwich, Connecticut in 1970.

Devin Garrity was also featured in the ABC

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 television series, Answers for Americans

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, which aired briefly in the 1953-1954 television season.