The 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. 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. 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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