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The family Roe : an American story / Joshua Prager.
Van Pelt Library KF228.R59 P73 2021
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prager, Joshua, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roe, Jane, 1947-2017--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Roe, Jane.
- Wade, Henry--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Wade, Henry.
- Coffee, Linda.
- Boyd, Curtis Wayne.
- Jefferson, Mildred.
- Roe, Jane, 1947-2017.
- Trials (Abortion)--Washington (D.C.).
- Trials (Abortion).
- Abortion--Law and legislation.
- History.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Abortion--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Abortion.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- American story
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Sex and Religion
- pt. II Three Texans
- pt. III Roe v. Wade
- pt. IV "The Raw Edges of Human Existence"
- pt. V Undue Burden
- pt. VI Born Again
- pt. VII Repercussion
- pt. VIII The Family Roe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-636) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393247718
- 0393247716
- OCLC:
- 1266274385
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