Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
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Overview
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.
Including essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Hector Tobar, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders and many more, Fight of the Century reminds us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today.
“Vigorous, informative, and well-organized, this outstanding collection befits the ACLU’s substantial impact on American law and society.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A stunning collection of original and topical essays.” —Booklist, starred review
“Lively, contextually grounded stories that read like the greatest hits of freedom. . . . riveting and refreshingly diverse.” —Kirkus Reviews
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781501190421 |
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Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date: | 02/13/2024 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 332 |
Sales rank: | 41,102 |
File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Michael Chabon (b. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. He then published Wonder Boys (1995), another bestseller, which was made into a film starring Michael Douglas. One of America’s most distinctive voices, Chabon has been called “a magical prose stylist” by New York Times Book Review, and is known for his lively writing, nostalgia for bygone modes of storytelling, and deep empathy for the human predicament.
Hometown:
Berkeley, CaliforniaDate of Birth:
May 24, 1963Place of Birth:
Washington, D.C.Education:
B.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.F.A., University of California at IrvineWebsite:
http://www.michaelchabon.com/Table of Contents
Introduction Michael Chabon Ayelet Waldman xiii
Foreword David Cole xvii
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Stromberg v. California (1931) 1
Jacqueline Woodson on Powell v. Alabama (1932) and Patterson v. Alabama (1935) 6
Michael Chabon on United States v. One Book Called "Ulysses" (1933) 11
Ann Patchett on Edwards v. California (1941) 24
Brit Bennett on West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) 29
Steven Okazaki on Korematsu v. United States (1944) 34
Daniel Handler on Hannegan v. Esquire (1946) 40
Geraldine Brooks on Terminiello v. City of Chicago (1949) 44
Yaa Gyasi on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) 49
Sergio De La Pava on Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) 57
Dave Eggers on Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) 66
Timothy Egan on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) 71
Yiyun Li on Lamont v. Postmaster General (1965) 77
Meg Wolitzer on Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) 82
Hector Tobar on Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 86
Aleksandar Hemon on Loving v. Virginia (1967) 93
Elizabeth Strout On Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) 100
Adrian Nicole Leblanc on Gregory v. City of Chicago (1969) 105
Rabih Alameddine on Street v. New York (1969) 112
Moriel Rothman-Zecher on Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) 118
Jonathan Lethem on Cohen v. California (1971) 128
Salman Rushdie on New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) 133
Lauren Groff on Roe v. Wade (1973) and Doe v. Bolton (1973) 138
Ayelet Waldman on O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975) 145
Jennifer Egan on Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld (1975) 152
Scott Turow on Buckley v. Valeo (1976) 158
Morgan Parker on Bob Jones University v. United States (1983) 166
Victor Lavalle on Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993) 183
Michael Cunningham on Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston (1995) 189
Neil Gaiman on Reno v. ACLU (1997) and Ashcroft v. ACLU (2004) 196
Jesmyn Ward On City of Chicago v. Morales (1999) 205
Moses Sumney on Zadvydas v. Davis (2001) 213
George Saunders on Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St Cyr (2001) 224
Marlon James on Lawrence v. Texas (2003) 237
William Finnegan on Rasul v. Bush (2004) 243
Anthony Doerr on Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005) 252
Charlie Jane Anders on Schroer v. Billington (2008) 263
Brenda J. Child on Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (2013) 268
Andrew Sean Greer on United States v. Windsor (2013) 280
Louise Erdrich on ACLU v. United States Department of Defense, et al. (2018) 286
Acknowledgments 293
The Contributors 295
Copyright Credits 303