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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.

On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation''''s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.

In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization''''s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in-Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona-need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue.

Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights-which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU''''s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU''''s stance on campaign finance.

These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted.

Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment. See more
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 533g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Jan 2020
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781501190407

About Ann PatchettBrit BennettDavid HandlerGeraldine BrooksJacqueline woodsonSteven OkazakiViet Thanh Nguyen

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of many books including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay The Yiddish Policemen''''s Union Gentlemen of the Road Telegraph Avenue Moonglow Pops and the picture book The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. He is the editor with Ayelet Waldman of Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. Ayelet Waldman is the author of the memoir A Really Good Day as well as of novels including Love and Treasure Red Hook Road and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. She is the editor of Inside This Place Not of It: Narratives from Women''''s Prisons and with Michael Chabon of Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. Other contributors include: Viet Thanh Nguyen Jacqueline Woodson Michael Chabon Ann Patchett Brit Bennett Steven Okazaki Daniel Handler Geraldine Brooks Yaa Gyasi Sergio De La Pava Dave Eggers Timothy Egan Yiyun Li Meg Wolitzer Hector Tobar Aleksandar Hemon Elizabeth Strout Nicole Adrian LeBlanc Rabih Alameddine Moriel Rothman-Zecher Jonathan Lethem Salman Rushdie Lauren Groff Ayelet Waldman Jennifer Egan Scott Turow Morgan Parker Victor LaValle Michael Cunningham Neil Gaiman Jesmyn Ward George Saunders Marlon James William Finnegan Anthony Doerr Charlie Jane Anders Brenda J. Childs Andrew Sean Greer Francisco Goldman and Louise Erdrich.

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