Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman (editors)
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Overview: 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.
Genre: Non-fiction > Educational
No More Flags: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Scottsboro, USA: Jacqueline Woodson
The Dirtiest, Most Indecent, Obscene Thing Ever Written: Michael Chabon
The Brother-in-Law: Ann Patchett
Victory Formation: Brit Bennett
The Nail: Steven Okazaki
A Short Essay About Shorts: Daniel Handler
They Talk Like That: Geraldine Brooks
Rocket City: Yaa Gyasi
One Will Be Provided for You: Sergio De La Pava
Legal Counsel at the Moment Most Crucial: Dave Eggers
How the First Amendment Finally Got Its Wings: Timothy Egan
Your Mail Belongs to Us: Yiyun Li
Protection: Meg Wolitzer
Ernesto’s Prayer: Hector Tobar
Loving: Aleksandar Hemon
The Black Armband: Elizabeth Strout
Crowd Work: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
The Right to Offend: Rabih Alameddine
On Jews, Blacks, the KKK, Ohio, and Freedom of Speech: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Disturbing the War: Jonathan Lethem
Secrets and Lies: Salman Rushdie
The Ambivalent Activist, Jane Roe: Lauren Groff
A Nondangerous Person: Ayelet Waldman
Father Sues for “Mother’s Benefits”: Jennifer Egan
Spending Money Isn’t Speech: Scott Turow
Bob Jones Builds a Wall: Morgan Parker
Some Gods Are Better Than Others: Victor LaValle
Queer, Irish, Marching: Michael Cunningham
“Because Girls Can Read as Well as Boys”: Neil Gaiman
We Gather: Jesmyn Ward
Stateside Statelessness: Moses Sumney
The Way the Law Leads Us: George Saunders
Live from the Bedroom: Marlon James
Habeas, Guantánamo, and the Forever War: William Finnegan
Who’s Your Villain?: Anthony Doerr
You’ve Given Me a Lot to Think About: Charlie Jane Anders
Relative Sovereignty: Brenda J. Child
We Love You, Edie Windsor!: Andrew Sean Greer
Surveillance Capitalism Versus Indigenous-Led Protest: Louise Erdrich
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