| Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU Contributor(s): Kaminer, Wendy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807044369 ISBN-13: 9780807044360 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | Ngos (non-governmental Organizations) - Political Science | Censorship |
| Dewey: 323.060 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.4" W x 8.22" (0.45 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When an organization committed to free speech succumbs to pressure to suppress internal criticism and disregard or spin the truth, it offers important lessons for other associations, corporations, and governments. Wendy Kaminer, a renowned advocate of civil liberties, calls on her experience as a dissident member of the American Civil Liberties Union national board to tell an inside story of dramatic ethical decline that has much to teach us about the land mines of groupthink. Note from the Author Ch. 2, The Problem with Partisanship, note 2. This book is not a comprehensive expose of ACLU controversies, (which would be too tedious for me to write or you to read, ) and the Beacon Press archive only documents this book; but my colleagues and I have been in the process of making a comprehensive record available in another publicly accessible archive. |