Share This
Description
Award-winning writers contribute to a "moving... entertaining... enlightening" collection of essays, each inspired by a historic ACLU case (New York Times).
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 "full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph" (Los Angeles Review of Books) 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.
Including essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Hector Tobar, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders and many more, Fight of the Century reminds us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today.
"Vigorous, informative, and well-organized, this outstanding collection befits the ACLU's substantial impact on American law and society." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A stunning collection of original and topical essays." -- Booklist, starred review
"Lively, contextually grounded stories that read like the greatest hits of freedom... riveting and refreshingly diverse." -- Kirkus Reviews
Tag This Book
This Book Has Been Tagged
Our Recommendation
Notify Me When The Price...
Log In to track this book on eReaderIQ.
Track These Authors
Log In to track Adrian Nicole LeBlanc on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Aleksandar Hemon on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Andrew Sean Greer on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Ann Patchett on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Anthony Doerr on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Brenda J. Childs on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Brit Bennett on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track C.J. Anders on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Dave Eggers on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track David Handler on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Elizabeth Strout on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track George Saunders on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Geraldine Brooks on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Hector Tobar on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Jacqueline woodson on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Jennifer Egan on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Jesmyn Ward on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Jonathan Lethem on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Lauren Groff on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Li Yiyun on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Louise Erdrich on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Marlon James on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Meg Wolitzer on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Michael Cunningham on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Morgan Parker on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Moriel Rothman-Zecher on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Moses Sumney on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Neil Gaiman on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Rabih Alameddine on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Salman Rushdie on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Scott Turow on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Sergio De La Pava on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Steven Okazaki on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Timothy Egan on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Victor Lavalle on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Viet Thanh Nguyen on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track William Finnegan on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Yaa Gyasi on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Ayelet Waldman on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Michael Chabon on eReaderIQ.
Log In to track Dave Cole on eReaderIQ.