Title:
The family Roe : an American story / Joshua Prager.
ISBN:
9780393247718
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part I. Sex and religion -- Part II. Three Texans -- Part III. Roe v. Wade -- Part IV. "The raw edges of human existence" -- Part V. Undue burden -- Part VI. Born again -- Part VII. Repercussion -- Part VIII. The family Roe.
Summary:
Reports on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.
"Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers--a previously unseen trove--and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America." -- inside front jacket flap.
OCLC Number:
on1266274385
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