Taking liberties : four decades in the struggle for rights /
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
c2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- [Pt.] I. The ACLU years: 1963-1978. Confronting police abuse ; Defending draft opponents ; Opening asylums ; Legalizing abortion ; Forging restraints on stigma ; Impeaching Nixon ; Defending free speech in Skokie, Illinois ; Exposing betrayal: the ACLU and the FBI
- [Pt.] II. The Human Rights Watch years: 1978-1993. Defeating Reagan ; Americas Watch: a testing by fire ; Promoting accountabiity ; Contacting the underground in Poland ; Visiting prisons in Cuba ; Suffering defeat over China
- [Pt.] III. The Soros years: 1993-. Sarajevo, Chechnya, and the loss of Fred Cuny ; Confronting the past in South Africa ; Intervening in Kosovo