The Family Roe: An American Story

by Joshua Prager

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393247716
• ISBN13: 9780393247718
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"