Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union /

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cottrell, Robert C., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Baldwin, Roger N. > (Roger Nash), > 1884-1981.
Baldwin, Roger N. > (Roger Nash), > 1884-1981
American Civil Liberties Union > History.
American Civil Liberties Union.
Civil rights > United States > Biography.
Civil rights > United States > History.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Biographies.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Civil rights.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of 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
  • Illustrations
  • 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
  • Name Index.

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