The fall of Roe : the rise of a new America / Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer.
2024
KF3771 .D49 2024 (Mapit)
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Author
Dias, Elizabeth, author.
Title
The fall of Roe : the rise of a new America / Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer.
Added Author
Lerer, Lisa, author.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New York : Flatiron Books, 2024.
Copyright
©2024
Description
xi, 433 pages ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Part I. The righteous fight, 2013-2015. June 2022 : Cincinnati, Ohio. The autopsy
Joan of Arc
A conversion story
Her mother's Texas
Teaching the men
The pendulum
The radical post-Roe generation
The symbol of Sanger
The hearing
Part II. The political war, 2016-2017. June 2022 : Cincinnati, Ohio. Titans and saints
The list
Hillary
The oddest couple
"Grab 'em by the pussy"
The new giants
Stacking the administration
The left's denial
Purging "pro-life" from the party
Jane Doe
Part III. The chessboard, 2018-2020. June 2022 : Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Exactly fifteen weeks
The pick
The war over Wen
Gaming the courts
The thread
Mississippi womanhood
The days of awe
The coup
Part IV. The fate of the nation, 2021-2023. June 2022 : Jackson, Mississippi. The brief
Texan revenge
The argument
Disbelief
The leak
The obituary
The heart of it all
After Dobbs
What is a woman?
March 2023 : Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Joan of Arc
A conversion story
Her mother's Texas
Teaching the men
The pendulum
The radical post-Roe generation
The symbol of Sanger
The hearing
Part II. The political war, 2016-2017. June 2022 : Cincinnati, Ohio. Titans and saints
The list
Hillary
The oddest couple
"Grab 'em by the pussy"
The new giants
Stacking the administration
The left's denial
Purging "pro-life" from the party
Jane Doe
Part III. The chessboard, 2018-2020. June 2022 : Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Exactly fifteen weeks
The pick
The war over Wen
Gaming the courts
The thread
Mississippi womanhood
The days of awe
The coup
Part IV. The fate of the nation, 2021-2023. June 2022 : Jackson, Mississippi. The brief
Texan revenge
The argument
Disbelief
The leak
The obituary
The heart of it all
After Dobbs
What is a woman?
March 2023 : Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Summary
In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe v. Wade was synonymous with women's rights and freedoms. This book reveals the inside story of how it happened. The authors' investigation charts the political and religious campaign to take down abortion rights and remake American families, womanhood, and the nation itself. Reeling from Barack Obama's 2012 landslide presidential victory--and motivated by a spiritual mission--a small but determined network of elite conservative Christian lawyers and powerbrokers worked quietly and methodically to keep their true cause alive: ending abortion rights. Thinking in generational terms, they devised a strategic, top-down takeover at every level of political and legal life, from little-known anti-abortion lobbyists in far flung statehouses to the arbiters of the Constitution at the highest court in the land. Broad swaths of liberal America did not register the severity of the threat until it was far too late. At a moment when women had more power than ever before, the feminist movement suffered one of the greatest political defeats in American history -- Adapted from the dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-433).
Historical Data
Elizabeth Dias is a national religion correspondent for the New York Times. Lisa Lerer is a national political correspondent for the New York Times.
Call Number
KF3771 .D49 2024
Language
English
ISBN
9781250881397 (hardcover)
1250881390 (hardcover)
9781250881403 (electronic book)
1250881390 (hardcover)
9781250881403 (electronic book)
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