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Author:	Nat Hentoff	Publisher:	Harpercollins
ISBN-10:	0060190108	Subject:	History
ISBN-13:	9780060190101	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1998	Condition:	Good
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A portrait of Americans, both prominent and unknown, who have fought to protect their civil liberties, sometimes at great cost. Hentoff is a reporter for the "Village Voice".
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Length:	236 pages
Height:	10.0 in.
Width:	6.8 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	19.2 oz.

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Nat Hentoff is one of America's foremost and most passsionate writers about civil liberties and civil rights. In Living the Bill of Rights,he has taken what is too often thought of as an abstract issue and enlivened it by focusing on representative individuals for whom the Constitution is a vital part of life. As the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan told Hentoff, Americans need to know how :American liberties were won--and what it takes to keep them alive...and about the actual people who are not afraid to fight to keep on being free Americans." Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy underlined this need when he wrote, "The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding each generation, or else it's not going to last."With characteristic eloquence, Hentoff covers the full range of American life in these inspiring and moving profiles and stories and portrays such fighters for the Bill of Rights as a high school senior in Tennessee who is born-again Christian; a black Texas lawyer fired by the local NAACP for representing a Klan wizard on constitutional grounds; Justice William Brennan himself; another Supreme Court Justice, William O. Douglas, the preeminent; and a professional basketball star who, for religious reasons, would not participate in a display of mass loyalty to the American flag.Adding to the book's breadth are stories about such additional public and private heroes as Dr. Kenneth Clark, a resolute African-American school integrationist when more and more Americans, including some blacks, are abandoning that goal; a Jewish teacher at a black university who spoke out compellingly against black anti-Semitism; a young white mother who refused to allow anyone to stereotype her or her children by their color; a black high school student who did not stand for the Pledge of Allegiance because she believes there is not equal justice for all in this land; and finally, among other paladins of liberty, a Southern lawyer with clients on death row whom he will not abandon. In Living the Bill of Rights,Hentoff illuminates the basic necessity--and fragility--of our rights and liberties.
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Despite its title, this book is not a manual of citizenship or even an analysis of the Bill of Rights; instead, it is a series of vignettes about ten people who took committed positions upholding the principles contained in our first ten amendments. Perhaps a more descriptive title might have been "Heroes of the American Civil Liberties Union," as the causes championed by these people are also those of the ACLU. Hentoff, longtime Village Voice columnist and author (Speaking Freely, LJ 9/1/97), is unabashedly sympathetic to the people whose stories he relates, and the reader learns a fair amount about the sacrifices they made in the name of defending civil liberties. But with the exception of Justice William Brennan and Dr. Kenneth Clark, we read little about the personal development of the people how they came to be so dedicated to the Bill of Rights. Nor is extensive legal background offered. Readers with an interest in a general overview of the human side of civil liberties and civil rights litigation will find this book appealing. Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes Univ., Wilkes-Barre, PA Bernstein According to Hentoff's (Speaking Freely, etc.) introduction, the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan once told the author, "The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.... But you've got to tell them stories... about people out there now who are not afraid to fight to keep on being free Americans." And in 13 profiles Hentoff does just that, reminding us of the power and duty of dissent. He begins with the late Justice William O. Douglas, who, in battling the status quo, filed more dissenting opinions (531) and stayed longer on the bench (36 years) than any other justice. Theres the courageous black lawyer Anthony Griffin, who at the bequest of the ACLU, defended the Ku Klux Klan against the state of Texas and as a result was fired by the NAACP as its Texas general counsel. Justice Brennan himself is profiled in three of the essays as an idealist who liked to quote from Yeats's Cathleen Ni Hoolihan and who believed that "even the vilest criminal remains a human being possessed of common human dignity." Two essays are dedicated to educator Kenneth Clarke, who played an essential part in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The book is filled out with recent cases that made the national media (such as that of Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, a professional basketball player who on religious grounds refused to stand for the national anthem) and plainer folk who have stood up and spoken out. Hentoff has compiled a lively and timely guide to the U.S. Constitution in action. (July) Lopate

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0060190108
Title : Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American
EAN : 9780060190101
Authors : Nat Hentoff
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : HarperCollins
Publication Date : 1998-08-02
Pages : 256
Signed : False
First Edition : False
Dust Jacket : True
List Price (MSRP) : 25.00
Height : 1.1000 inches
Width : 6.7000 inches
Length : 9.7000 inches
Weight : 1.3500 pounds
Keywords : "Civil Rights & Liberties, Constitutions, General, Constitutional History"
Condition : Good

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