UID:
edocfu_9958351792802883
Format:
1 online resource :
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37 photos
ISBN:
9780231534031
Series Statement:
Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History
Content:
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. Recapturing the accomplishments and contradictions of America's greatest civil libertarian—a staunch defender of Communist Russia who openly admired J. Edgar Hoover and Douglas MacArthur—this riveting biography is an eye-opening view of the development of the American left.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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1. Growing Up in Wellesley Hills --
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2. The Inevitable Harvard and Beyond --
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3. The Progressive as Social Worker --
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4. The Civic League --
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5. Early Civil Liberties Career --
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6. The National Civil Liberties Bureau --
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7. The United States v. Roger Baldwin --
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8. Prison Life --
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9. An Unconventional Marriage --
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10. The American Civil Liberties Union --
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11. The ACLU Under Suspicion --
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12. Turning to the Courts --
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13. International Human Rights --
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14. A European Sabbatical --
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15. Free Speech and the Class Struggle --
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16. From the United Front to the Popular Front --
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17. The Home Front --
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18. Controversies on the Path from Fellow Traveling to Anticommunism --
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19. Civil Liberties During World War II --
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20. “Quite a Dysfunctional Family” --
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21. The Cold War, the Shogun, and International Civil Liberties --
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22. A Very Public Retirement in the Age of Anticommunism --
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23. A Man of Contradictions --
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24. Matters of Principle --
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25. The Public Image --
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26. Traveling Hopefully --
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Notes --
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Collections, Oral Histories, and Interviews --
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Bibliography --
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Subject Index --
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Index of Names
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/cott11972