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Rethinking the History of the American Civil Liberties Union: Donohue's Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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- Review Symposium: The ACLU and Politics; the Politics of the ACLU
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- Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1986
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1 [Norman Redlich], Private Attorneys-General: Group Action in the Fight for Civil Liberties. 58 Yale L.J. 574 (1949).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 Herbert McClosky & Alida Brill, Dimensions of Tolerance: What American Believe About Civil Liberties 22, 437 (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1983).Google Scholar
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4 But see the reflections of an “insider,” former ACLU Executive Director Aryeh Neier, Only Judgment: The Limits of Litigation in Social Change (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. 1982).Google Scholar
5 The best summary of the ACLU's role is Norman Dorsen, The American Civil Liberties Union: An Institutional Analysis, Tulane L.J. 6 (1984).Google Scholar
6 An oft-cited criticism of the changing ACLU at a particularly critical juncture is Politics and the ACLU, in Joseph Bishop, Jr., Obiter Dicta (New York: Atheneum, 1971).Google Scholar
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8 In fairness to Donohue, it should be noted that virtually every historian and biographer has been mystified by Baldwin's political odyssey. See Lamson, Peggy, Roger Baldwin (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976).Google Scholar
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