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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
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Author:
Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio de la Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Héctor Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor LaValle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Child, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, David Cole, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher:
Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster
Date:
January 21, 2020
To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with 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.
What The Reviewers Say
... an engaging and informative foreword by David Cole...offers a good summary of the impressive array of momentous victories the ACLU has achieved, as discussed in these pages.
The predigested fact patterns that litigators deem suitable for court consumption are bland fare for a novelist’s palate, so it’s enlightening to watch some of our most masterly literary portraitists restore the warts and wardrobes, the motivations and machinations to those whose stories have been stripped down to surnames or pseudonyms.
Some of the essays are cerebral and analytical; others are meditative and achingly personal. All of the entries are compelling, and the overall strength of the collection—never a given in anthologies with dozens of contributors—is a credit to the A-list roster that Chabon and Waldman have gathered[.].
... a unique collection of essays by a wide range of individuals whose body of work spreads far beyond traditional legal writing.
