Defending Rights: A Life in Law and Politics (Signed)

Frank Askin

ISBN 10: 0391040065 / ISBN 13: 9780391040069

Published by Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1997

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Near fine. Signed and inscribed by the author: "To ___, With warm regards to a civil libertarian, the pride of liberty. Frank Askin 11/23/97". Second printing. Softcover. Rutgers Professor and General Counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) describes milestones in his career, from his time on the streets, to later in the courts fighting anti-democratic policies and government abuse of individual rights. He writes of his legal challenges to surveillance practices of the US Army, CIA, and FBI, and how civil liberties lawyers work to make police agencies honor constitutional prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure. Askin provides insight into how constitutional protections for free speech protect the rights of grass roots organizations and small businesses, and the ongoing battle between branches in matters of national security.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Defending Rights: A Life in Law and Politics (Signed)
• Publisher: Humanities Press, New Jersey
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0391040065
• ISBN 13: 9780391040069
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: second printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • american history

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Synopsis

A chronicle demonstrating Askin's legal challenges to the surveillance practices of the US army, the CIA and the FBI. This work is about law, lawyers, politics and how people influence public policy. It covers his struggles in various important roles throughout his life.

Reviews

Founder of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers University and longtime counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union, veteran legal activist Askin spearheaded a number of efforts to counteract perceived excesses of the U.S. military and various government agencies, especially the FBI, which were notorious for intrusive intelligence-gathering, surveillance activities, and harassment of individuals. His record of success is mixed, largely reflecting the conservatism of both state and federal judges in the Cold War and post-Watergate eras. But his handling and trying of the cases has been exemplary, constituting a valuable portfolio of practical and clever techniques for a legal strategist defending the constitutional rights of the individual. For academic and larger public law collections.?Phillip Young Blue, New York State Supreme Court Criminal Branch Lib., New York
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