Roger Nash Baldwin And The American Civil Liberties Union

Author : Robert Cottrell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231534035
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union written by Robert Cottrell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-18 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Nash Baldwin's thirty-year tenure as director of the ACLU marked the period when the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights came into being. Spearheaded by Baldwin, volunteer attorneys of the caliber of Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Osmond Frankel, and Edward Ennis transformed the constitutional landscape. Company police forces were dismantled. Antievolutionists were discredited (thanks to the Scopes Trial). Censorship of such works as James Joyce's Ulysses was halted. The Scottsboro Boys and Sacco and Vanzetti were defended. The right of free speech for communists and Ku Klux Klansmen alike was upheld, and the foundations were laid for an end to school segregation. Robert Cottrell's magnificent book recaptures the accomplishments and contradictions of the complicated man at the center of these events. Driven, vain, frugal, and tempestuous, America's greatest civil libertarian was initially also a staunch defender of Communist Russia, deferred to the U.S. government over the internment of Japanese Americans, and openly admired J. Edgar Hoover and Douglas MacArthur. His personal relationships were equally complex. Spanning a hundred years from the late 1800s through Baldwin's death in 1981, this riveting biography is an eye-opening view of the development of the American left.

Author : Robert C. Cottrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231119733
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union written by Robert C. Cottrell and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Cottrell's magnificent book recaptures the accomplishements and contradictions of the complicated man at the center of these events. Driven, vain, frugal, and tempestuous, America's greatest civil libertarian was initially also a staunch defender of Communist Russia, deferred to the U.S. government over the internment of Japanese Americans, and openly admired J. Edgar Hoover and Douglas MacArthur. His personal relationships were equally complex. Spanning a hundred years from the late 1800s through Baldwin's death in 1981, this riveting biography is an eye-opening view of the development of the American left."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Roger Nash Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Roger Nash Baldwin written by Roger Nash Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Albizu Campos; visits in prison hospitals; defense by American Civil Liberties Union.

Author : Peggy Lamson
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger Baldwin, Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union written by Peggy Lamson and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1976 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Roger Nash Baldwin written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences of American Civil Liberties Union; observations on 1960s: civil rights, anti-war and women's movements; obscenity question; privacy rights; labor relations; democratic government; international civil rights; impressions of Supreme Court judges, Ralph Nader, and Kennedy family.

Author : Ben Primer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Civil Liberties Union written by Ben Primer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501190415
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fight of the Century written by Viet Thanh Nguyen and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Author : Ben Primer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Civil Liberties Union Archives written by Ben Primer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series 1 of the ACLU archives collection. Covers the organization's activity in relation to such issues as academic freedom and censorship.

Author : Michele L. Louro
Publisher : Global and International Histo
ISBN 13 : 1108419305
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comrades against Imperialism written by Michele L. Louro and published by Global and International Histo. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the emergence of anti-imperialist internationalism during the interwar years from the perspective of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Author : Woody Klein
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberties Lost written by Woody Klein and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No fight for civil liberties ever stays won," wrote Roger Baldwin (1884-1981) in 1971. He was in a position to know. After working hard to preserve the right of Americans to free expression during World War I, he founded the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920. The ACLU quickly became, and remains to this day, the staunchest defender of American civil liberties. Woody Klein has selected from the vast writings of Baldwin those essays that are most pertinent to the civil liberties debate today. Each chapter offers writings that focus on a particular theme, such as national security or the invasion of privacy. Each is followed by commentary, commissioned specifically for this book, from some of America's most prominent politicians and journalists. The stellar contributors include : BLArthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Days, about the administration of John F. Kennedy; BLSenator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), who has repeatedly spoken out in Congress against the war in Iraq and the U.S.A. Patriot Act; BLAnthony Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times; BLSenator Russell D. Feingold (D-WI), who cast the Senate's lone vote against the U.S.A. Patriot Act; BLNat Henthoff, a nationally known award-winning journalist and columnist for the Village Voice BLWilliam Sloane Coffin Jr., clergyman and longtime peace activist; BLVictor Navasky, editor and publisher of the Nation; BLIra Glasser, former Executive Director of the ACLU; and BLAryeh Neier, head of the Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations network since 1993.