Background
Telford was born on February 24, 1908 in Schenectady, New York, United States. He was the son of John Bellamy and Marcia Estabrook (Jones) Taylor.
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
Telford Taylor attended Williams College and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1928 and a Master of Arts in 1932.
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Telford Taylor studied at Harvard Law School, where he received his Bachelor of Laws in 1932.
Yeshiva University, New York City, New York, United States
Telford Taylor got from Yeshiva University his Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary) in 1987
Taylor in retirement
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(The book Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy is an...)
The book Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy is an examination of the United States' conduct of the Vietnam conflict in comparison to the actions taken by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Its author, Telford Taylor, was once the Chief Counsel Prosecutor at the war crimes trials of Nazi leaders in Nuremburg, Germany from 1946-1949. In that capacity, Taylor helped to establish the laws by which Nazi war criminals would be tried for their crimes.
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1970
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Telford Taylor, prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials and now professor of law at Columbia University, is one of these lawyers. In this book he makes public how he and his colleagues - among them Alan Dershowitz, Leon Lipson, George Fletcher, and Melvin Stein - have challenged the Soviet judicial system on its own legal grounds, and how the Soviet Union has subverted its own rules for the conduct of trials and the confinement of prisoners in order to accommodate a government policy of discouraging emigration without appearing to prohibit it.
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1976
(In "Munich: The Price of Peace," Taylor traces the milita...)
In "Munich: The Price of Peace," Taylor traces the military and diplomatic alignments and machinations in Europe from Versailles to Munich and its aftermath.
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1979
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Telford was born on February 24, 1908 in Schenectady, New York, United States. He was the son of John Bellamy and Marcia Estabrook (Jones) Taylor.
Telford Taylor attended Williams College and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1928 and a Master of Arts in 1932. He also studied at Harvard Law School, where he received his Bachelor of Laws in 1932. He got from Yeshiva University his Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary) in 1987.
While studying law at Harvard, Telford Taylor made it onto Law Review his last year of studies and clerked for Judge Agustus Hand. From there he became part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration, helping to draft the Securities Exchange Act. Taylor moved on to the Justice Department and served as general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission. He joined Army intelligence when the United States entered World War II and helped decipher Nazi codes. He was recruited in 1945 to help with the Nuremberg trials.
A top assistant at the trial, Taylor took over the prosecution after he was made a brigadier general. From 1946 to 1949 nearly two hundred Nazis were tried for their roles in the war and Taylor won convictions for about one hundred and fifty. When the trials concluded he returned to the United States and a post in the Truman administration.
His first book, Sword and Swastika, was published in 1952 and it examined the newly appearing apologist writings of German army officials. During the 1950s Taylor raged against Senator Eugene McCarthy and the investigation he instigated, then found himself targeted by McCarthy. McCarthy implied Taylor was less than loyal to his country because he represented people suspected of communism. The attacks did not impact Taylor’s career and he responded with the book Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations, which pointed out McCarthy’s flaws.
From 1957 and continuing into the 1970s Taylor served on the law school faculties at Yale University, Columbia University, and Cardozo Law School. Throughout the years he continued writing, eventually completing about a dozen books. Titles include The March of Conquest, Guilt, Responsibility, and the Third Reich, and The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir.
Taylor retired in 1994.
(The book Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy is an...)
1970(In "Munich: The Price of Peace," Taylor traces the milita...)
1979(Telford Taylor, prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials an...)
1976Telford Taylor was critical of the war in Vietnam and wrote Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy. Taylor never lost interest in human rights issues and took on the cause of Jews imprisoned in Russia for wanting to immigrate to Israel and said the behavior exhibited in the Bosnian War should result in criminal indictments.
Telford was a member of Association of Bar of City of New York, American Law Institute, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Reserve Officer's Association, Author's Guild, Military OrderWorld Wars.
Taylor married twice. On July 2, 1937 he married Mary Eleanor Walker, later she died. His second wife was Toby Golick, with whom he had six children.