ACLU: The Devil's Advocate: The Seduction of Civil Liberties in America [Hardcover]

F. LaGard Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1996

A critique of the American Civil Liberties Union from both a legal and moral perspective. Taking a close look at the wider liberal-Left agenda, Smith explores the moral context in which battles over issues like free speech, religious liberty, and sexual expression are being fought.

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About the Author

Scholar in Residence for Christian Studies at Lipscomb University. Former professor of law, Pepperdine University School of Law

Product Details

• Hardcover: 312 pages
• Publisher: Marcon 3; 1St Edition edition (February 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886547033
• ISBN-13: 978-1886547032
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,141,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes one quite introspective, March 21, 2001

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This review is from: ACLU: The Devil's Advocate: The Seduction of Civil Liberties in America (Hardcover)

I must admit this book was a gift and it sat on my shelf for over two years before I read it. I thought it was going to be a right wing slam on the ACLU. I despise books that heap invectives and use ad homieum attacks to disparage the opponents. I enjoy books that paint fair and accurate pictures of ones ideological adversary while using logic and reason to dispute their stands on issues. This book was more than fair to the ACLU and the logic used in it is very impressive.

Smith spoke openly and candidly of the good, yes, the GOOD that the ACLU had done. Yet he also pierces the organizations veil like high a powered laser showing how from a idealistic liberty pursing start the ACLU has slid to be a schizophrenic puppet of the ultra liberal left.

Just when you begin to feel you are vindicated for holding the ACLU in utter contempt he than turns his laser beam focus on the right and shows you more than enough similarities between the religious right and the radical left to make you squirm. This book does something that so few books do today. It makes you think, not so much about how rotten or evil the ACLU is rather it makes you look introspectively into yourself, your inner psyche and how you may be more like your supposed nemesis than you wish to imagine.

ACLU The Devils Advocate FAIR ACCURATE and PENETRATING to your core

Kudos F. LaGard Smith for a job well done.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Review of the ACLU, February 19, 2003

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This review is from: ACLU: The Devil's Advocate: The Seduction of Civil Liberties in America (Hardcover)

This is a thorough, although somewhat wordy, review of the ACLU and it's policies. It seems unbiased, and shows clearly how the ACLU changed from a libertarian organization to a tool of the far left wing liberals. A great book for anyone doing research on or just wanting to know more about the ACLU.