Ellis Cose

Ellis Cose is a former columnist for Newsweek, chairman of the editorial board of the New York Daily News, contributor and critic for Time, and columnist for USA Today. The author of numerous books, including Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America (The New Press) as well as the bestselling The Rage of a Privileged Class, he lives in New York City.

News and Reviews

Author Intervew

Read a Q&A with author Ellis Cose about Democracy, If We Can Keep It, the ACLU, and the fight for rights.

Leonard Lopate at Large

Listen to an interview with author Ellis Cose on WBAI’s Leonard Lopate at Large.

Publishers Weekly

Read a review of Democracy, If We Can Keep It in Publishers Weekly.

USA Today

Read an op-ed in USA Today by author Ellis Cose that reflects upon the legacy of the ACLU on their centennial anniversary.

Books by Ellis Cose

Democracy, If We Can Keep It
The ACLU’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America

Ellis Cose