Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union

Name: Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union
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ISBN: 9780231119726

ISBN-10: 0231119720

ISBN-13: 9780231119726

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert Cottrell

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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 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. …

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/18/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English

Robert Cottrell is professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico. He has written numerous books and articles on American liberalism, reform, and radicalism in the twentieth century, including Izzy: A Biography of I. F. Stone.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Growing Up in Wellesley Hills



The Inevitable Harvard and Beyond



The Progressive as Social Worker



The Civic League



Early Civil Liberties Career



The National Civil Liberties Bureau



The United States v. Roger Baldwin



Prison Life



An Unconventional Marriage



The American Civil Liberties Union



The ACLU Under Suspicion



Turning to the Courts



International Human Rights



A European Sabbatical



Free Speech and the Class Struggle



From the United Front to the Popular Front



The Home Front



Controversies on the Path from Fellow Traveling to Anticommunism



Civil Liberties During World War II



"Quite a Dysfunctional Family"



The Cold War, the Shogun, and International Civil Liberties



A Very Public Retirement in the Age of Anticommunism



A Man of Contradictions



Matters of Principle



The Public Image



Traveling Hopefully


Notes


Collections, Oral Histories, and Interviews


Bibliography


Subject Index


Name Index