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The family Roe : an American story

Prager, Joshua (author.).

Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers--a previously unseen trove--and 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." -- inside front jacket flap.

Book  - 2021
342.73084 Pra
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  • ISBN: 9780393247718
  • ISBN: 0393247716
  • Physical Description print
    655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
  • Publisher New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-636) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Part I. Sex and religion -- Part II. Three Texans -- Part III. Roe v. Wade -- Part IV. "The raw edges of human existence" -- Part V. Undue burden -- Part VI. Born again -- Part VII. Repercussion -- Part VIII. The family Roe.