Standing up to your political enemies is easy, fun, and often
profitable. Taking public issue with your friends and allies on a
matter of great principle is none of these, but it is a far more
important service to others. I am enormously grateful to Wendy
Kaminer for the intellectual integrity and moral courage this book
represents.
內容簡介:
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.
Note from the Author
Ch. 2, The Problem with Partisanship, note 2.
This book is not a comprehensive expose of ACLU controversies,
which would be too tedious for me to write or you to read, and
the Beacon Press archive only documents this book; but my
colleagues and I have been in the process of making a comprehensive
record available in another publicly accessible archive.
關於作者:
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
目錄:
MOb Scenes
The Problem with Partisanship
Not the Crime but the Cover.up
7he Political Shouldn,t Be Personal
Facts Don,t Matter
Money Changes Everything
Potemkin Villages
Gag Rules
Going It Alone
Acknowledgments
Notes