The family Roe an American story

Reports on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.

Main Author:	Prager, Joshua (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Roe, Jane, > 1947-2017 > Trials, litigation, etc. Wade, Henry > Trials, litigation, etc. Coffee, Linda. Boyd, Curtis Wayne. Jefferson, Mildred. Trials (Abortion) > Washington (D.C.) Abortion > Law and legislation > United States > History.

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.
Physical Description:	655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-636) and index.
ISBN:	9780393247718 0393247716
Author Notes:	Joshua Prager has written for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, New York Times , and Wall Street Journal . A former Harvard Nieman Fellow, he is the author of The Echoing Green (a Washington Post Best Book of the Year) and lives in New Jersey.