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Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The Aclu’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America
by Ellis Cose

    Publication Date: Jul 07, 2020
    List Price: $29.99
    Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9781620973837
    Imprint: The New Press
    Publisher: The New Press
    Parent Company: The New Press

    Hardcover 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 freedom—one that is profoundly relevant to our present moment.




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