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The Case for Marriage Equality
Viking
June 2014
On Sale: June 17, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 0670015962
EAN: 9780670015962
Kindle: B00G3L6JR8
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The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court’s landmark
ruling on Proposition 8—by the two lawyers who argued the
case
On June 26, 2013, the Supreme
Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark
decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and
eliminating California’s discriminatory Proposition 8,
reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in
California.
Redeeming the Dream is
the story of how David Boies and Theodore B. Olson—who
argued against each other all the way to the Supreme Court
in Bush v. Gore—joined forces after that titanic
battle to forge the unique legal argument that would carry
the day. As allies and not foes, they tell the fascinating
story of the five-year struggle to win the right for gays to
marry, from Proposition 8’s adoption by voters in 2008, to
its defeat before the highest court in the land in
Hollingsworth v. Perry in 2013.
Boies and Olson guide readers through the legal framing of
the case, making crystal clear the constitutional principles
of due process and equal protection in support of marriage
equality while explaining, with intricacy, the basic human
truths they set out to prove when the duo put
state-sanctioned discrimination on trial.
Redeeming the Dream offers readers an authoritative,
dramatic, and up-close account of the most important civil
rights issue—fought and won—since Brown v. Board of
Education and Loving v. Virginia.
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