Taking liberties : four decades in the struggle for rights /
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| Author / Creator: | Neier, Aryeh, 1937- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : PublicAffairs, c2003. |
| Description: | xxxiv, 406 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4825870 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. The ACLU Years: 1963-1978
- 1. Confronting Police Abuse
- 2. Defending Draft Opponents
- 3. Opening Asylums
- 4. Legalizing Abortion
- 5. Forging Restraints on Stigma
- 6. Impeaching Nixon
- 7. Defending Free Speech in Skokie, Illinois
- 8. Exposing Betrayal: The ACLU and the FBI
- II. The Human Rights Watch Years: 1978-1993
- 9. Defeating Reagan
- 10. Americas Watch: A Testing by Fire
- 11. Promoting Accountability
- 12. Contacting the Underground in Poland
- 13. Visiting Prisons in Cuba
- 14. Suffering Defeat over China
- III. The Soros Years: 1993-
- 15. Sarajevo, Chechnya, and the Loss of Fred Cuny
- 16. Confronting the Past in South Africa
- 17. Intervening in Kosovo
- Summing Up
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
