Bibliograph

The family Roe, an American story, Joshua Prager

Type

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The family Roe, an American story, Joshua Prager

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-636) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrationsgenealogical tables

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The family Roe

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1266274385

Responsibility statement

Joshua Prager

Sub title

an American story

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

American story

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