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The Engagement

The Engagement

America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage

by Sasha Issenberg
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/06/2021
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The riveting story of the fight for same-sex marriage in the United States-the most important civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium.

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.

ISBN:
9781524748739
9781524748739
Category:
Civil rights & citizenship
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-06-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
928
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x37mm
Weight:
1.31kg
Sasha Issenberg

Sasha Issenberg is the author of three books, including The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. He covered the 2012 election as a columnist for Slate and the 2008 election as a national political reporter in the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe, and his work has also appeared in New York, The New York Times Magazine, and George, where he served as a contributing editor. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

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History Family law: marriage & divorce Gay studies (Gay men) Gay & Lesbian studies Civil rights & citizenship Law 21st century history: from c 2000 -
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