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Title
Fight of the century
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Fight of the century: writers reflect on 100 years of landmark American Civil Liberties Union cases
Writers reflect on 100 years of landmark American Civil Liberties Union cases
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Chabon, Michael (editor)
Waldman, Ayelet (editor)
Subject
Civil rights--United States--Cases (LCSH)
American Civil Liberties Union
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays (BISACSH)
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights (BISACSH)
HISTORY / United States / General (BISACSH)
Civil rights--United States (SEARS)
Genre Form
Trial and arbitral proceedings (LCGFT)
Language
English (eng)
Geographic Coverage
Classification
DDC: 323/.06073 full (Source: 23)
LCC: KF4745 .F54 2020 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Content
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Summary
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
"To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union asked authors to contribute an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. Since its founding on January 19, 1920, the ACLU remains the nation's premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. This collection takes readers inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some are the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in; others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now"--Adapted from the book jacket.
Table Of Contents
Stromberg v. California (1931) / Viet Thanh Nguyen
Powell v. Alabama (1932) and Patterson v. Alabama (1935) / Jacqueline Woodson
United States v. One Book Called "Ulysses" (1933) / Michael Chabon
Edwards v. California (1941) / Ann Patchett
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) / Brit Bennett
Korematsu v. United States (1944) / Steven Ozazaki
Hannegan v. Esquire (1946) / Daniel Handler
Terminello v. City of Chicago (1949) / Geraldine Brooks
Brown v. Board of Education of Topkea (1954) / Yaa Gyasi
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) / Sergio De La Pava
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) / Dave Eggers
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) / Timothy Egan
Lamont v. Postmaster General (1965) / Yiyun Li
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) / Meg Wolitzer
Miranda v. Arizona (1966) / Hectar Tobar
Loving v. Virginia (1967) / Alexksandar Hemon
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) / Elizabeth Strout
Gregory v. City of Chicago (1969) / Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Street v. New York (1969) / Rabih Alameddine
Brandenberg v. Ohio (1969) / Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Cohen v. California (1971) / Jonathan Lethem
New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) / Salman Rushdie
Roe v. Wade (1973) and Doe v. Bolton (1973) / Lauren Groff
O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975) / Ayelet Waldman
Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld (1975) / Jennifer Egan
Buckley v. Valeo (1976) / Scott Turow
Bob Jones University v. United States (1983) / Morgan Parker
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993) / Victor Lavalle
Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston (1995) / Michael Cunningham
Reno v. ACLU(1997) and Ashcroft v. ACLU (2004) / Neil Gaiman
City of Chicago v. Morales (1999) / Jesmyn Ward
Zadvydas v. David (2001) / Moses Sumney
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr (2001) / George Saunders
Lawrence v. Texas (2003) / Marlon James
Rasul v. Bush (2004) / William Finnegan
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005) / Anthony Doerr
Schroer v. Billington (2008) / Charlie Jane Anders
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (2013) / Brenda J. Child
United States v. Windsor (2013) / Andrew Sean Greer
ACLU v. United States Department of Defense, et al. (2018) / Louise Erdrich
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