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Taking Liberties:

Four Decades in the Struggle for Human Rights
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Publiaffairs, 2003 - Biography & Autobiography - 406 pages
This text is a memoir of 40 years of fighting for civil liberties, human rights and justice by the former executive director of the ACLU and Human Rights Watch and the current President of the Open Society Institute. Since joining the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1963 and becoming its youngest executive director, Aryeh Neier has been at the forefront of efforts to fight for civil liberties, human rights and social justice.;Whether he was confronting police abuse, defending draft opponents or defending free speech, as he did at the ACLU; out-maneuvering the Reagan administration over military abuses in El Salvador; promoting accountability for political crimes in Argentina and Chile or supporting dissidents in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as he did at Human Rights Watch; or trying to eradicate landmines, promote stability in the Balkans or establish an International Criminal Court, as he has at the Open Society Institute; Aryeh Neier has been methodical, relentless, and unusually successful.;In this look back at his career, Neier both reflects on the unintended consequences of some of his victories and why, if he had anticipated them, he might have done things differently; and reveals that some of the various movements of which he was a part had their greatest triumphs under the most adverse circumstances.

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In this unflinching memoir of his 40 years of working for human rights, noted activist Neier brings to light his many successes as well as his "mistakes and errors in judgment"; with 20/20 hindsight ... Read full review

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The Rights Stuff. By EUGENE R. FIDELL. TAKING LIBERTIES Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. By Aryeh Neier. Illustrated. 406 pp. New York: ...
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... Terror, and the Struggle for Justice (1998, Times Books); and Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights (2003, Public Affairs). ...
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His most recent book is Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. (November 2007). From the Review. December 20, 2007: 'The Death of the ...
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"Fight for Your Rights: One Man’s Story - Forward.com"
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Project Syndicate
... Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is the author most recently of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. ...
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About the author (2003)

Aryeh Neier has been president of the Open Society Foundations since 1993. Prior to that, he was a founder and executive director of Human Rights Watch and executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. A contributor to many major publications, he is the author of "Taking Liberties and War Crimes," among other books.

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TitleTaking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Human Rights
AuthorAryeh Neier
Editionillustrated
PublisherPubliaffairs, 2003
ISBN1891620827, 9781891620829
Length406 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Political
Political Science / Civil Rights
  
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