Justice Talking.(Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights)(Book review)(Book Review)

Nation, The, October, 2003 by Malcomson, Scott L.

TAKING LIBERTIES: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. By Aryeh Neier. Public Affairs. 406 pp. $30.

In his memoir, Taking Liberties, Aryeh Neier emerges, almost despite himself, as a fascinating man. The story of his achievements is itself interesting and takes up the bulk of his pages. And I do mean the bulk. It is to the introduction that Neier relegates his childhood (born Berlin 1937) as a refugee in England (for a time he was confined to a hostel, "where, I am told, I stopped speaking"). We have a page on the Midlands towns where he grew up and what it was like to be a Jew there (odd at matins, otherwise not bad), then across the seas to Stuyvesant High in New York City, where he "opposed McCarthyism to the limited extent possible for a high-school...

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