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Taking Liberties: Four Decades In The Struggle For Rights Paperback – March 2, 2005
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Aryeh Neier
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Since joining the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1963 and becoming its youngest executive director, Aryeh Neier has been at the forefront of efforts to fight for civil liberties, human rights, and social justice. Whether he was confronting police abuse, defending draft opponents or defending free speech, as he did at the ACLU; out-maneuvering the Reagan administration over military abuses in El Salvador, promoting accountability for political crimes in Argentina and Chile or supporting dissidents in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as he did at Human Rights Watch; or trying to eradicate landmines, promote stability in the Balkans or establish an International Criminal Court, as he has at the Open Society Institute; Aryeh Neier has been methodical, relentless, and unusually successful. In this look back at an amazing career, Neier both reflects on the unintended consequences of some of his victories and why, if he had anticipated them, he might have done things differently; and reveals that some of the various movements of which he was a part had their greatest triumphs under the most adverse circumstances.
- Print length432 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 2, 2005
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.02 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101586482912
- ISBN-13978-1586482916
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"An intellectual history of the rights movement in the United States and abroad, as told by a...highly effective protagonist" -- The Washington Post
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Aryeh Neier lives in New York with his wife.
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- Publisher : PublicAffairs (March 2, 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 432 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1586482912
- ISBN-13 : 978-1586482916
- Item Weight : 1.22 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.02 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,412,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8,908 in Civil Rights & Liberties (Books)
- #16,386 in Discrimination & Racism (Books)
- #37,110 in Political Science (Books)
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Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2004
A bunch of books in one as we see the turbulent litigation of the 60s and 70s from an insider's point of view, then the growth of Human Rights Watch and the important work done in Central America and elsewhere to George Soros' occasionally transformational efforts in former Soviet countries. Refreshingly honest, such as the part where Neier admits that the ACLU's mental health litigation asking for the mentally ill to be released from institutions unwittingly contributed to the homeless crises which continues to this day. I have never heard a liberal admit this, though it is probably true (it's important to admit mistakes to avoid them in the future). The book would have been better with more about Neier's personal life and his personal feelings about triumphs and defeats, but all in all a great insider view of civil liberties litigation, NGO politics, and human rights strategy.
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