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Barcode30053003293811
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No323.0973 COSE
Title Democracy, if we can keep it : the ACLU's 100-year fight for rights in America / Ellis Cose.
Author Cose, Ellis, author.
CollectionAdult 300-399
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003293811323.0973 COSE7/23/2020 Available

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Personal Name Cose, Ellis, author.
Title Statement Democracy, if we can keep it : the ACLU's 100-year fight for rights in America / Ellis Cose.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : The New Press, [2020]
Physical Description viii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-445) and index.
Summary, Etc. "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, serving as an "embedded journalist" 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject American Civil Liberties Union History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Civil rights United States History.

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