Taking Liberties
Subtitle: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: January 7, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781891620829
Subjects: Biography: general; Human rights; Politics / Current Events; Human rights workers; United States; Political And Civil Rights; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights; Biography & Autobiography; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Biography/Autobiography; Neier, Aryeh,; Political; Neier, Aryeh; Biography/Memoir; 1937-; Biography; Civil rights; Civil rights workers
First sentence: In 1963, I was hired by John de J. Pemberton,executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, as the organization's field directly.
Description: The author describes his experiences working to defend rights, discussing cases and issues he faced, beginning in 1963, on the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union, as co-founder of Human Rights Watch, and as president of the Soros Foundations and Open Society Institute.