Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The Aclus 100-year Fight For

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Nombre: Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLUs 100-Year Fight for Rights in America (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: The New Press

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About the Author

Ellis Cose is a former columnist for Newsweek, chairman of the editorial board of the New York Daily News, contributor and critic for Time, and columnist for USA Today. The author of numerous books, including Our Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU and Its 100-Year Battle for Our Rights (The New Press) as well as the bestselling The Rage of a Privileged Class, he lives in New York City.

Product Description

Published to coincide with the ACLU's centennial, a major new book by the nationally celebrated journalist and bestselling author
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.
The result is Cose's groundbreaking Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU's 100-Year Fight for Rights in America, the most authoritative account ever of America's premier defender of civil liberties. A vivid work of history and journalism, Democracy, If We Can Keep It is not just the definitive story of the ACLU but also an essential account of America's rediscovery of rights it had granted but long denied. Cose's narrative begins with World War I and brings us to today, chronicling the ACLU's role through the horrors of 9/11, the saga of Edward Snowden, and the phenomenon of Donald Trump.
A chronicle of America's most difficult ethical quandaries from the Red Scare, the Scottsboro Boys' trials, Japanese American internment, McCarthyism, and Vietnam, Democracy, If We Can Keep It weaves these accounts into a deeper story of American freedomone that is profoundly relevant to our present moment.

Review

Praise for Democracy, If We Can Keep It:
"A well-researched chronicle of democratic activism."
Kirkus Reviews
"Comprehensive and even-handed . . . this judicious account reveals just how integral the ACLU has been to the past century of American history."
Publishers Weekly
"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."
Library Journal

"This brisk, sometimes breathless history provides a helpful introduction to these important issues."
Booklist
"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 entitled Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU's 100-Year Fight for Rights in America."
Stephen Rohde, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Ellis Cose's extraordinary exploration of the ACLU's century of work is a timely and timeless read for all stewards of social justice."
Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation

"Ellis Cose's elegant, masterly history of the ACLU is also a report on our country's chronic autoimmune disorder, in which the system risks its own health in the act of 'saving ' itself. One comes away from this unflinching account with the urgent sense that there are no simple diagnoses or cures, that democracy is an organism in a constant cycle of decay and repairand that survival is not inevitable."
Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prizewinning author, Carry Me Home

"Over the last century, it's astonishing how closely the history of the ACLU tracks with the history of the United States. It's all here in Ellis Cose's brisk, compelling, and urgent account of a vital champion of democracy."
Jonathan Alter, author, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

"Ellis Cose tells the story of the women and men who fought back when political speech became an imprisonable offense, when state and local authorities enabled violent mobs, and when courts ruled against peaceful protests and strikesoffering hard-bo

CARACTERÍSTICAS PRINCIPALES:

-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

MÁS DETALLES:

Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9781620973837
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 1620973839
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta dura
Editorial: The New Press
Titulo del libro: Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLUs 100-Year Fight for Rights in America (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Cose, Ellis
Fecha de publicación: 2020
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 480
ISBN-13: 9781620973837
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9781620973837