In today's resurgence of radical right-wing politics, we must never forget how things were in the past, during the turbulent McCarthy era. In this 326-page book, Corliss Lamont reveals the gripping saga of the Congressional Inquisition and details its trampling on American Freedoms, including the facts of his own battles with Senator Joseph McCarthy, the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the FBI, and the U.S. Postal Service. Successful in each encounter, Lamont's landmark decisions continue to buttress the rights of us all to this day.
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"An important contribution....Few have fought for civil liberties as unflinchingly or with such devotion to principle." -- Thomas I. Emerson, Yale Law School
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Born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1902, Corliss Lamont graduated first from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1920, then magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1924. He did graduate work at Oxford and at Columbia, where he received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1932. He was director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1932 to 1954. Then, until 1995, he was chairman of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. A leading proponent of individual rights under the U.S. Constitution, he won famous court decisions over Senator Joseph McCarthy and the CIA. In 1965, he secured a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against censorship of incoming mail by the U.S. Postmaster General. Dr. Lamont has long been associated with Humanism, authoring the first edition of The Philosophy of Humanism in 1949. It has since become the standard text on the subject. He taught at Columbia, Cornell, and Harvard Universities, and at the New School for Social Research.
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