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Hook, Sidney, 1960-1964

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 22

Scope and Contents

[1960- ] 1960-1964. Correspondence with Hook on legal issues and publications. Konvitz and Hook discuss legal issues including expatriation cases, jurisprudence, constitutional liberties, preferred and strategic freedoms, Supreme Court justices, Congressional power to override Court rulings, and the statute of limitation on the charge of conspiring to organize a Communist party. Correspondence includes scholarly discussions of Konvitz's monograph, Aspects of Liberty (February 18, 1962) and Hook's The Paradoxes of Freedom (January 22, 1962). Also correspondence on the work and control of the New Leader magazine (January 6, 1961), and on personal matters.

Dates

  • 1960-1964

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, German, Yiddish

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

204.78 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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