Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality

By Jo Becker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143127233
• ISBN13: 9780143127239
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher