Best Selling Books by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

A nonfiction story of young people in the ghetto, as girls become mothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Traduit de l''anglais (États-Unis) par Frédérique Pressmann. " Certains livres vous marquent de façon si intime, si puissante, qu''on voudrait voir le monde entier s''émerveiller tout en rêvant de les garder encore un peu pour soi tout seul. (...) En tout cas, vous qui n''avez pas encore commencé ce livre, vous avez beaucoup de chance : vous ne le savez pas encore, mais vous venez de gagner une deuxième vie. " Florence Aubenas Adrian Nicole LeBlanc n''a que 25 ans lorsque son journal l''envoie couvrir le procès de " Boy George ", un jeune trafiquant d''héroïne portoricain du Bronx. Pour mieux comprendre, elle s''immerge dans le ghetto où vit la famille de Boy George. Son enquête durera douze ans. Unique en son genre, Les Enfants du Bronx décrit au jour le jour la vie de cette famille qui a adopté la journaliste comme une des leurs. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc raconte tout : la drogue, l''argent, la misère, les amours adolescentes, les mariages, la violence, les enfants nés trop tôt, dans cet extraordinaire reportage semblable à un roman où tout serait vrai. Préface inédite de Florence Aubenas.

Gedetailleerde beschrijving van de onderklasse van de Puerto Ricaanse en Caribische bevolking in de Bronx, waar zowel binnen als buiten het familieleven eigen wetten gelden.