Prager, Joshua
Family Roe : an American story American story The family Roe Joshua Prager. - First edition. - New York, NY W.W. Norton & Company 2021 - 655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color), genealogical table 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-636) and index.
Sex and religion -- Three Texans -- Roe v. Wade -- "The raw edges of human existence" -- Undue burden -- Born again -- Repercussion -- The family Roe. Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Part VII. Part VIII.
A masterpiece of reporting 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 hundred s 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. Prager begins that story on the banks of Louisiana's Atchafalaya River, where Norma was born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her forebears. A pregnancy then upended Norma's life too, and the Dallas waitress became Jane Roe. Drawing on a decade of research, Prager reveals the woman behind the pseudonym, writing in novelistic detail of her unknown life from her time as a sex worker in Dallas, to her private thoughts on family and abortion, to her dealings with feminist and Christian leaders, to the three daughters she placed for adoption. Prager found those women, including the youngest--Baby Roe--now fifty years old. She shares her story in The Family Roe for the first time, from her tortured interactions with her birth mother, to her emotional first meeting with her sisters, to the burden that was uniquely hers from conception. The Family Roe abounds in such revelations-not only about Norma and her children but about the broader "family" connected to these case. Prager tells the stories of activists and bystanders alike whose lives intertwined with Roe. In particular, he introduces three figures as important as they are unknown: feminist lawyer Linda Coffee, who filed the original Texas lawsuit yet now lives in obscurity; Curtis Boyd a former fundamentalist Christian, today a leading provider of third-trimester abortions; and Mildred Jefferson, the first black female Harvard Medical School graduate, who became a pro-life leader with great secrets. An epic work spanning fifty years of American history, The Family Roe will change the way you think about our enduring American divide: the right to choose or the right to life. --
9780393247718 0393247716
2021427522
McCorvey, Norma 1947-2017 --Family
Roe, Jane, 1947-2017 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Wade, Henry--Trials, litigation, etc.
Coffee, Linda 1942-
Boyd, Curtis Wayne.
Trials (Abortion)--History.--United States
Abortion--Law and legislation--History.--United States
Abortion, Induced--legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion, Induced--history
History, 20th Century
History--United States--20th century.
Trials (Abortion)--History.--United States.
Abortion--Law and legislation--United States.
Families
United States
KF228.R59 / P73 2021 HQ1413.M34 / P73 2021
343.73084 Pra 9
WZ 140 AA1
Family Roe : an American story American story The family Roe Joshua Prager. - First edition. - New York, NY W.W. Norton & Company 2021 - 655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color), genealogical table 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-636) and index.
Sex and religion -- Three Texans -- Roe v. Wade -- "The raw edges of human existence" -- Undue burden -- Born again -- Repercussion -- The family Roe. Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Part VII. Part VIII.
A masterpiece of reporting 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 hundred s 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. Prager begins that story on the banks of Louisiana's Atchafalaya River, where Norma was born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her forebears. A pregnancy then upended Norma's life too, and the Dallas waitress became Jane Roe. Drawing on a decade of research, Prager reveals the woman behind the pseudonym, writing in novelistic detail of her unknown life from her time as a sex worker in Dallas, to her private thoughts on family and abortion, to her dealings with feminist and Christian leaders, to the three daughters she placed for adoption. Prager found those women, including the youngest--Baby Roe--now fifty years old. She shares her story in The Family Roe for the first time, from her tortured interactions with her birth mother, to her emotional first meeting with her sisters, to the burden that was uniquely hers from conception. The Family Roe abounds in such revelations-not only about Norma and her children but about the broader "family" connected to these case. Prager tells the stories of activists and bystanders alike whose lives intertwined with Roe. In particular, he introduces three figures as important as they are unknown: feminist lawyer Linda Coffee, who filed the original Texas lawsuit yet now lives in obscurity; Curtis Boyd a former fundamentalist Christian, today a leading provider of third-trimester abortions; and Mildred Jefferson, the first black female Harvard Medical School graduate, who became a pro-life leader with great secrets. An epic work spanning fifty years of American history, The Family Roe will change the way you think about our enduring American divide: the right to choose or the right to life. --
9780393247718 0393247716
2021427522
McCorvey, Norma 1947-2017 --Family
Roe, Jane, 1947-2017 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Wade, Henry--Trials, litigation, etc.
Coffee, Linda 1942-
Boyd, Curtis Wayne.
Trials (Abortion)--History.--United States
Abortion--Law and legislation--History.--United States
Abortion, Induced--legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion, Induced--history
History, 20th Century
History--United States--20th century.
Trials (Abortion)--History.--United States.
Abortion--Law and legislation--United States.
Families
United States
KF228.R59 / P73 2021 HQ1413.M34 / P73 2021
343.73084 Pra 9
WZ 140 AA1