LEADER 04184nam 2200553 450 001 9910827472303321 005 20231120195405.0 010 $a0-231-53403-5 024 7 $a10.7312/cott11972 035 $a(CKB)111056485389146 035 $a(EBL)908922 035 $a(OCoLC)767569020 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2145036 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2145036 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11086552 035 $a(OCoLC)52161679 035 $a(DE-B1597)473093 035 $a(OCoLC)979969560 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231534031 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485389146 100 $a20150822h20002000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRoger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union /$fRobert C. Cottrell 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2000. 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (272 pages) 225 0 $aColumbia Studies in Contemporary American History 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-11972-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Growing Up in Wellesley Hills --$t2. The Inevitable Harvard and Beyond --$t3. The Progressive as Social Worker --$t4. The Civic League --$t5. Early Civil Liberties Career --$t6. The National Civil Liberties Bureau --$t7. The United States v. Roger Baldwin --$t8. Prison Life --$t9. An Unconventional Marriage --$t10. The American Civil Liberties Union --$t11. The ACLU Under Suspicion --$t12. Turning to the Courts --$t13. International Human Rights --$t14. A European Sabbatical --$t15. Free Speech and the Class Struggle --$t16. From the United Front to the Popular Front --$t17. The Home Front --$t18. Controversies on the Path from Fellow Traveling to Anticommunism --$t19. Civil Liberties During World War II --$t20. ?Quite a Dysfunctional Family? --$t21. The Cold War, the Shogun, and International Civil Liberties --$t22. A Very Public Retirement in the Age of Anticommunism --$t23. A Man of Contradictions --$t24. Matters of Principle --$t25. The Public Image --$t26. Traveling Hopefully --$tNotes --$tCollections, Oral Histories, and Interviews --$tBibliography --$tSubject Index --$tIndex of Names 330 $aRoger 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.Robert Cottrell's magnificent book recaptures the accomplishments and contradictions of the complicated man at the center of these events. Driven, vain, frugal, and tempestuous, America's greatest civil libertarian was initially also a staunch defender of Communist Russia, deferred to the U.S. government over the internment of Japanese Americans, and openly admired J. Edgar Hoover and Douglas MacArthur. His personal relationships were equally complex. Spanning a hundred years from the late 1800s through Baldwin's death in 1981, this riveting biography is an eye-opening view of the development of the American left. 606 $aCivil rights$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCivil rights$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights 615 0$aCivil rights$xHistory. 676 $a323/.092 B 700 $aCottrell$b Robert C.$f1950-$0269055 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827472303321 996 $aRoger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union$9678871 997 $aUNINA