Forcing the Spring

Name: Forcing the Spring
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 9780143127239-PRUSDTR-US
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Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality

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English • Age Adult - Adult

496 pages • 5.44 x 8.38 x 1.05 in

Approx. weight: 0.98 lb

Publication date: 19 May,2015

Barcode: 9780143127239 • Penguin Books

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By: Jo Becker

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year | A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

“[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train... Becker’s most remarkable accomplishment is to weave a spellbinder of a tale that, despite a finale reported around the world, manages to keep readers gripped until the very end.” - The Washington Post

A groundbreaking work of reportage by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jo Becker, Forcing the Spring is the definitive account of five remarkable years in American civil rights history, when the United States experienced a tectonic shift on the issue of marriage equality. Focusing on the historic legal challenge of California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Becker offers a gripping, behind-the scenes narrative told with the lightning pace of a great legal thriller. Taking the reader from the Oval Office to the Supreme Court ruling, from state-by-state campaigns to an astounding shift in national public opinion, Forcing the Spring is political and legal journalism at its finest.