The engagement : America's quarter-century struggle over same-sex marriage / Sasha Issenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Issenberg, Sasha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Same-sex marriage.

Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation.

Marriage.

Genre:

History.

Informational works

History

Informational works.

Physical Description:

x, 911 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]

Summary:

"On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the road to victory was much longer than many know. In this seminal work, Sasha Issenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state's supreme court first started grappling with the issue, and traces the fight for marriage equality from the enactment of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to the Goodridge decision that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, and finally to the seminal Supreme Court decisions of Windsor and Obergefell. This meticulously reported work sheds new light on every aspect of this fraught history and brings to life the perspectives of those who fought courageously for the right to marry as well as those who fervently believed that same-sex marriage would destroy the nation. It is sure to become the definitive book on one of the most important civil rights fights of our time"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THE LOVE THAT ATE AN ISLAND (1990

1996)

1. Seeking License

2. Only One Man Marching

3. A Distinct Civil-Liberties Question

4. Rolling The Dice

5. Gay Mafia

6. Making The Case

7. Baehr V. Lavin

8. A Chickenskin Moment

9. Shoals Of Time

pt. TWO INVENTING A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS (1996)

10. Wardle's Run

11. Dominos At The Barn Door

12. A Message From The Presidency

13. Apostles

14. Hawaii's Future Today

15. Kickoff

16. Don & Bob

17. The Law Man

18. How A Grievance Becomes A Bill

pt. THREE INSIDE GAMES (1996)

19. March On, Washington

20. Fights Of The Roundtable

21. Waiting For A Nightmare

22. The Rebrander And The Firebrand

23. Smooth Sailing

24. Endangered Liaisons

25. Two Weeks In May

26. Dear Friends

27. An Election-Year Baseball Bat

28. When The Deal Goes Down

29. Midnight Cowboy

30. Trial At Honolulu

pt. FOUR THE SECOND FRONT (1997

2003)

31. Shameless Agitator

32. Queer Town Meetings

33. Marriage 101

34. Anything But The Slam-Dunk Cases

35. Baker V. State

36. The Remedy

37. Scenes From A Civil Union

38. Down From The Mountains

39. The Next Town Over

40. Goodridge

pt. FIVE "OUR TEAM IS NOT WINNING" (2003

2004)

41. We're The Marriage People

42. A Sense Of Where The Culture Is Headed

43. Enemy Of The Good

44. Marriage Movements

45. Wise As Serpents

46. Dueling Amendments

47. Lawlessness

48. Issue One

pt. SIX TWENTY TEN TEN TEN (2003-2007)

49. When You're Living Through It

50. Paul Revere Rides In

51. Speaking For The Silent Majority

52. Clear It With Evan

53. Organization Man

54. Mining The Foundations

55. Outgiving

56. Clarity Of Coalition

57. After The Bloodbath

58. Punish The Wicked

59. Let California Ring

pt. SEVEN THE RIGHT'S LAST STAND (2007

2008)

60. It Came From San Diego

61. Little Kingdoms

62. God's Way Of Bringing People Together

63. Nassau Street

64. To The Ballot

65. Amen Brothers

66. The Mormon Empire Strikes Back

67. Proposition 8

pt. EIGHT THE ROAD FROM JERSEY CITY (2009

2012)

68. Whodunit

69. Meet In The Middle

70. Gathering Storm

71. Up Against The Wall

72. Roadmap

73. For Better Or For Worse

74. Money Talks In New York

75. A Grave Price

76. Campaign In A Box

77. Land Rush To The Ballot

78. Conversation And Inoculation

79. Four Ballots

pt. NINE ENDGAME (2009

2015)

80. Dooming Doma

81. Dave & Ted's Excellent Adventure

82. Duty To Defend

83. Facts Of The Matter

84. Appealing Stuff

85. Inaction Hero

86. Leading From Behind

87. In The Shadow Of Lady Liberty

88. Shotgun Wedding

89. And Then There Were Nine

90. Blinding Times

91. When The Dam Breaks

92. Once And For All.

Introduction : A President Decides

The Love That Ate an Island (1990-1996)

Inventing A Constitutional Crisis (1996)

Inside Games (1996)

The Second Front (1997-2003)

"Our Team Is Not Winning" (2003-2004)

Twenty Ten Ten Ten (2003-2007)

The Right's Last Stand (2007-2008)

The Road From Jersey City (2009-2012)

Endgame (2009-2015)

Conclusion: Back to Hawaii

Postscript.: Massive Desistance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 769-870) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Issenberg, Sasha. Engagement.

ISBN:

9781524748739

1524748730

9781984898517

1984898515

OCLC:

1119467097

Publisher Number:

99987741645