{"product_id":"book-dl6h","title":"The Engagement","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.”  —John Williams, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a story that begins in Hawaii in 1990, when a rivalry among local activists triggered a sequence of events that forced the state to justify excluding gay couples from marriage. In the White House, one president signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which elevated the matter to a national issue, and his successor tried to write it into the Constitution. Over twenty-five years, the debate played out across the country, from the first legal same-sex weddings in Massachusetts to the epic face-off over California’s Proposition 8 and, finally, to the landmark Supreme Court decisions of \u003ci\u003eUnited States v. Windsor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eObergefell v. Hodges\u003c\/i\u003e. From churches to hedge funds, no corner of American life went untouched.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis richly detailed narrative follows the coast-to-coast conflict through courtrooms and war rooms, bedrooms and boardrooms, to shed light on every aspect of a political and legal controversy that divided Americans like no other. Following a cast of characters that includes those who sought their own right to wed, those who fought to protect the traditional definition of marriage, and those who changed their minds about it,\u003ci\u003e The Engagement \u003c\/i\u003eis certain to become a seminal book on the modern culture wars.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49326279262512,"sku":"BDdl6h","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/358315-dl6h-Square.jpg?v=1733618307","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dl6h","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}