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.
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