June 4, 2009
Battles in the Boardroom
A former ACLU trustee opens the door on the civil-liberties group's leadership tussles
Few nonprofit boards have fared worse in print than the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union in Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU, a new book by the social critic Wendy Kaminer.
In the book, Ms. Kaminer chronicles the errors she believes Anthony D. Romero made shortly after he became the executive director of the nation's largest civil-liberties organization in 2001. She argues that the majority of the charity's 83 board members were so caught
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