Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union /

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 transforme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cottrell, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Colección:Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History
Temas:
Civil rights > United States > Biography.
Civil rights > United States > History.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Growing Up in Wellesley Hills
  • 2. The Inevitable Harvard and Beyond
  • 3. The Progressive as Social Worker
  • 4. The Civic League
  • 5. Early Civil Liberties Career
  • 6. The National Civil Liberties Bureau
  • 7. The United States v. Roger Baldwin
  • 8. Prison Life
  • 9. An Unconventional Marriage
  • 10. The American Civil Liberties Union
  • 11. The ACLU Under Suspicion
  • 12. Turning to the Courts
  • 13. International Human Rights
  • 14. A European Sabbatical
  • 15. Free Speech and the Class Struggle
  • 16. From the United Front to the Popular Front
  • 17. The Home Front
  • 18. Controversies on the Path from Fellow Traveling to Anticommunism
  • 19. Civil Liberties During World War II
  • 20. "Quite a Dysfunctional Family"
  • 21. The Cold War, the Shogun, and International Civil Liberties
  • 22. A Very Public Retirement in the Age of Anticommunism
  • 23. A Man of Contradictions
  • 24. Matters of Principle
  • 25. The Public Image
  • 26. Traveling Hopefully
  • Notes
  • Collections, Oral Histories, and Interviews
  • Bibliography
  • Subject Index
  • Index of Names

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