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Ellis Cose
Ellis Cose is the author of a dozen books on issues of national and international concern, including the bestselling The Rage of a Privileged Class, a novel (The Best Defense), The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America, and Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America (The New Press), the definitive history of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Author photo: Mariela Lombard