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"An excellent story of the ACLU's development while realistically painting the organization's picture as a picture of struggle, endurance, and growth."
-- Canadian Journal of History

"Must reading for anyone interested in the nation's most prominent civil liberties group. . . . Clearly organized and well written. . . . Highly recommended."
-- CHOICE

"An important contribution to the history of the development of a critical institution in American politics and American law."
-- American Communist History

"Kutulas's judicious and insightful study extends the reader's understanding of the status of civil liberties and the politics of the World War II and Cold War eras. It offers a cautionary perspective that is particularly timely for post-9/11 America."
Historian

"Critically but sympathetically explores organizational intricacies and individual conflicts. . . . Joins the small body of essential works examining the ACLU and its relationship to the once dominant strand of thought in the United States."
Left History

"We have needed [this] book for a long time. . . . Kutulas brings the story alive with rich detail."
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

"A magnificent job unearthing the internal debates between ACLU members over how democratic the organization should be and what democratic feedoms the organization should fight for. . . . Persons engaged in different disciplinary dialogues on civil liberties in the United States will find their conversations enriched by reading this [book]."
American Historical Review

"A beautifully researched and intelligent discussion of the institutional evolution of the nation's most important civil liberties organization.

Ellen Schrecker, author of Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America"

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Founded by radicals in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union experienced several key changes in its formative years. Judy Kutulas traces the history of the ACLU between 1930 and 1960, as the organization shifted from the fringe to the liberal mainstream of American society.

In alternating chapters, Kutulas explores operations at the national level and among the group's local branches. To gain mainstream credibility, the radicals at ACLU headquarters became more professional, began using court challenges rather than direct action, and carefully chose their battles to focus on national security as much as on the protection of dissent. Meanwhile, the group's affiliates, separated from the institutionalization of the national office, maintained the idealism of defending the rights of all individuals, no matter how unpalatable their beliefs and activities.

The shifts at the national level made the ACLU more government-friendly and less radical, but also, Kutulas argues, more timid and weak. Civil liberties activists in ACLU branches around the country ultimately pushed the organization to return to its radical roots in the 1960s. In an afterword, Kutulas addresses how post-9/11 America poses the familiar challenge of balancing national security and individual rights that came to the forefront in the early decades of the ACLU.


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