On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, and Roger Baldwin, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. Looking back on a century of the ACLU's most important cases, this anthology includes Michael Chabon on the case that allowed James Joyce's Ulysses to be distributed in America and Lauren Groff reflecting on Roe v. Wade, while the other contributors include Louise Erdrich, Anthony Doerr, Neil Gaiman, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Marlon James, Jonathan Lethem, Elizabeth Strout, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, Jesmyn Ward, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, and Scott Turow.