Liberties Lost

"No fight for civil liberties ever stays won," wrote Roger Baldwin (1884-1981) in 1971. He should know. After working hard to preserve our right to free expression during World War I, in 1920 he founded the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU quickly became, and remains to this day, the staunchest defender of our civil liberties. Woody Klein has selected from the vast writings of Baldwin those essays that are most pertinent to the civil liberties debate today. In each chapter these writings focus on a particular theme, such as national security or invasion of privacy, and they are followed by commentary commissioned specifically for this book.