Worst Instincts Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU
by Kaminer, WendyEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2010-06-01
Publisher(s): Beacon Press
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Wendy Kaminer is the author of many books, including Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today; I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions; and Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety. She lives in Boston.
Table of Contents
| Mob Scenes | p. 1 |
| The Problem with Partisanship | p. 11 |
| Not the Crime but the Cover-up | p. 18 |
| The Political Shouldn't Be Personal | p. 32 |
| Facts Don't Matter | p. 48 |
| Money Changes Everything | p. 64 |
| Potemkin Villages | p. 88 |
| Gag Rules | p. 105 |
| Going It Alone | p. 130 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 139 |
| Notes | p. 140 |
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