• The American Civil Liberties Union—Rex Stout was on the original board of the ACLU and was active in many of its causes.
  
  
• NAACP
  
  
• Memoirs of Casanova
  (a case for Freedom of Speech)
  
• Other
  • Stout nearly causes riot at Hiram Fish Rally
    
    
  • The Rosenbergs
    
    Although Rex Stout was decidedly anti-communist by the early 1930s, he was angry when he read Invitation To An Inquest (1965) by Walter and Miriam Schneir, an expose of how the government railroaded the Rosenbergs to the electric chair in the 1952 trial. Be sure to read his Rampart's Magazine article:
    
    
    • The Case of the Spies Who Weren't (Ramparts Magazine, January, 1966)

  However, on September 12, 2008 The New York Times interviewed a co-conspirator, Morton Sobell, who was released from Federal prison after serving more than 19 years. He states that Julius Rosenberg was indeed guilty:

  • "Figure in Rosenberg Case Admits to Soviet Spying"

• Richard Nixon's egregious misuse of his office is a key element of dialogue in A Family Affair. On February 18, 1974, The Washington Post published their own pastiche of what happened to the Missing Minutes. Read Archie's description of just how Wolfe solved the mystery.

• Nero Wolfe Takes a Ghostly Client, by Rex Stout. This article probably alludes to Harold Edward Stassen's "quixotic effort (perhaps covertly encouraged by Eisenhower, who had reservations about Richard Nixon's maturity for the presidency) to 'dump Nixon' at the 1956 Republican Convention." Following Stassen's actions, Nixon attempted to "kill" his political career. The source is unknown, but was probably written by Rex Stout, as stated. Stassen (1907 - 2001) was also known as perennial Republican Party presidential candidate.

• Stout/Archibald MacLeish Correspondence on the "perils of Bill Buckley?" (July, 1967)

Author's Rights

• Authors Guild (Authors League of America)
  • Stout elected president
    
    
  • Stout's and other officers' rebuttal of NY Times Editorial (1970 Letters to the Editor)
    
    
• Universal Copyright Convention
  
  
• Songwriters Protective Association
  
  
Stout addresses The Authors Guild and their guests, book critics and reviewers, regarding 1965 Copyright Act Revision then before the Congress to update the current Act that dates from 1909 (audio recording from WNYC radio).