The family Roe, an American story, Joshua Prager
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The family Roe, an American story, Joshua Prager
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-636) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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The family Roe
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bibliography
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1266274385
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Joshua Prager
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an American story
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"Despite her famous pseudonym, zJane Roe,y no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (19472017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papersa previously unseen troveand 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 Louisianas Atchafalaya River where Norma was born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her forebears. A pregnancy then upended Normas 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. 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."--, Amazon
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American story
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