{"product_id":"fight-of-the-century-writers-reflect-on-100-years-of-landmark-aclu-cases-paperback","title":"Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Chabon\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAyelet Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDave Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this \"forceful, beautifully written\" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e) about landmark cases in the organization's one-hundred-year history. \u003ci\u003eFight of the Century \u003c\/i\u003etakes 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--\u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMiranda v. Arizona\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHector 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 \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Michal Chabon and Ayelet Waldman; Foreword by Dave Cole. Contributors include: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline Woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio De La Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, Moses Sumney, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J .Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978510696749,"sku":"9781501190414","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/b2xhY2Z4YU1nTmtKa1dyYUNXWWVZZz09.webp?v=1775805556","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/fight-of-the-century-writers-reflect-on-100-years-of-landmark-aclu-cases-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}