Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union

By: Robert Cottrell

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Hardcover | 18 January 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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.

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Cottrell fills the pages with Baldwin's mentors, allies and foe... providing a detailed and comprehensive understanding of 80 years of progressive activity. Publishers Weekly A rich, textured portrait highlighting Baldwin's numerous contradictions... Highly recommended at all levels. -- R. J. Goldstein Choice A tale worth telling. Cottrell tells it very well. -- Michael R. Belknap Journal of American HIstory

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Preface	p. IX
Acknowledgments	p. XIII
Growing Up in Wellesley Hills	p. 1
The Inevitable Harvard and Beyond	p. 13
The Progressive as Social Worker	p. 22
The Civic League	p. 36
Early Civil Liberties Career	p. 46
The National Civil Liberties Bureau	p. 61
The United States v. Roger Baldwin	p. 80
Prison Life	p. 91
An Unconventional Marriage	p. 103
The American Civil Liberties Union	p. 119
The ACLU Under Suspicion	p. 135
Turning to the Courts	p. 151
International Human Rights	p. 169
A European Sabbatical	p. 183
Free Speech and the Class Struggle	p. 199
From the United Front to the Popular Front	p. 215
The Home Front	p. 237
Controversies on the Path from Fellow Traveling to Anticommunism	p. 255
Civil Liberties During World War II	p. 278
"Quite a Dysfunctional Family"	p. 299
The Cold War, the Shogun, and International Civil Liberties	p. 310
A Very Public Retirement in the Age of Anticommunism	p. 325
A Man of Contradictions	p. 343
Matters of Principle	p. 354
The Public Image	p. 368
Traveling Hopefully	p. 379
Notes	p. 393
Collections, Oral Histories, and Interviews	p. 459
Bibliography	p. 465
Subject Index	p. 481
Name Index	p. 489
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