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...
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