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Forcing the Spring
- Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
- By: Jo Becker
- Narrated by: Jamie Leonhart
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A tour de force of groundbreaking reportage by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jo Becker, Forcing the Spring follows the historic legal challenge mounted against California’s ban on same-sex marriage, a remarkable lawsuit that forced the issue of marriage equality before the highest court in the land. For nearly five years Becker embedded with the lawsuit’s plaintiffs, was given free rein within the legal and political war rooms where strategy was plotted, and attended every day of the trial and every appellate argument.
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A stirring courtroom drama
- By David on 05-19-14
- Forcing the Spring
- Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
- By: Jo Becker
- Narrated by: Jamie Leonhart
Um... no Obergefell?
Reviewed: 06-19-19
An almost 15 hour listen and not once did the name of Jim Obergefell get mentioned. Obergefell v. Hodges (Docket No. 14-556) was the case that officially gave LGBT+ Americans the right to marry in all 50 states. The story of marriage equality is a three act play, Prop 8, Windsor, and Obergefell. Listening to this felt like watching Star Wars and turning off the movie before the Death Star blows up.
If you are going to tell the story, tell the WHOLE story.
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