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Format:

Book

Author:

Neier, Aryeh, 1937-

Title:

Taking liberties : four decades in the struggle for rights / Aryeh Neier.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

xxxiv, 406 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

The author describes his experiences working to defend rights, discussing cases and issues he faced, beginning in 1963, on the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union, as co-founder of Human Rights Watch, and as president of the Soros Foundations and Open Society Institute.

Subjects:

Neier, Aryeh, 1937-

Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.

Human rights workers -- United States -- Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Table of contents

LCCN:

2002031918

ISBN:

1891620827

9781891620829

1586482912

9781586482916

Other Number:

50693311

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Control Number:

122653

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Call Number:

323.092 Neier