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Ira Glasser

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Ira Glasser has served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union since 1978. Prior to his affiliation with the ACLU, Mr. Glasser was a mathematician and a member of the science and mathematics faculties of Queens College and Sarah Lawrence College. Glasser authored a book, Visions of Liberty: The Bill of Rights for All Americans, published in November 1991. An insightful analysis of how our rights developed, written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, Visions was published by Arcade Publishing Inc. in New York City. Glasser is a widely published essayist on civil liberties principles and issues, whose writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, and Christianity and Crisis, among other publications.
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