Twilight of Liberty: Legacy of the ACLU - Hardcover

William A. Donohue is president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in New York City. He taught at both St. Lucy’s School in Spanish Harlem and La Roche College. He is the author of numerous works, including The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union, The New Freedom, and Secular Sabotage.

“Focusing primarily on the past decade, Donohue contends, inter alia, that the ACLU's obsession with individual rights serves to undermine the overall social order and ultimately has the effect of lessening individual freedoms.” — R. A. Carp, Choice

“Provocative . . . he acknowledges that the ACLU has honorably battled violations of individual rights but he maintains that the group’s fetishization of those rights degrades institutions that help build responsibility and community. . . . His critique is in many instances appropriate.”  —Publisher’s Weekly

“Mr. Donohue makes a detailed and persuasive argument that, far from simply “protecting constitutional freedom the ACLU is driven by an ideology for which the accurate term is extremist. Twilight of Liberty is an important polemical and constructive contribution to understanding law, politics, and morality in contemporary America.”   —The Reverend Richard John Neuhaus, First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

“William Donohue thoroughly documents and perceptively analyzes both the socially destructive work of the American Civil Liberties Union and the threat to liberty presented by the extremist positions on individual “rights” ACLU propagates. This book is a much-needed antidote to pernicious trends in our national life.” —Robert H. Bork, American Enterprise Institute