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Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLUâs 100-Year Fight for Rights in America
Maybe someday
48
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Readers
56/100Critics
40/100Scholars
Author:
Ellis Cose
Publisher:
The New Press
Date:
July 7, 2020
For a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to keep Americans in touch with the founding values of the Constitution. As its centennial approached, the organization invited Ellis Cose to become its first ever writer-in-residence, with complete editorial independence.
What The Reviewers Say
The dramatic, turbulent, colorful, controversial, and, in many cases, little-known story of how the ACLU responded to the urgent need to defend the Constitution and how it has persisted in that mission for the last hundred years is told in an engaging new book by Ellis Cose.
This brisk, sometimes breathless history provides a helpful introduction to these important issues..
Cose’s book is an excellent choice for anyone seeking to understand the ACLU as an organization and for those wanting to explore how the fight for civil liberties has evolved and helped to shape the society we have today..
... a thorough, balanced recounting of the organization’s often turbulent century.
