Freedom Is As Freedom Does: Civil Liberties in America

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.The book includes a Foreword by Bertrand Russell, an Introduction by H. H. Wilson, and a new Epilogue by the author dated February 1981. The book includes extensive Notes, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index.This version of Freedom Is As Freedom Does: Civil Liberties in America is the Third Printing, 1981.