Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Do you like book clubs? I'm just asking

something tells me that if you're listening to this, you might be a book club type person.

Well, if you are, the folks over at NPR Politics have a regular book club series where they pick a book and talk about it in their Facebook group and, you know, do an interview with the author.

We want that to play you a recent installment, and don't worry, like any decent book club,

it's okay if you haven't read it.

It's an interview with journalist Sasha Eisenberg about his book, The Engagement,

which traces the history of marriage equality in the U.S.

And he tells NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben about the internal struggle among LGBT people to even agree that marriage equality was a fight worth having.

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Hey there, it is the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Danielle Kurtzleben. I cover demographics and culture.

And today, we are doing another installment of our book club series. And we're talking about a book

that's about both demographics and culture. Sasha Eisenberg's The Engagement is an exhaustive,

deep, really kind of monumental look at the long road to marriage equality in the United States,

from its early beginnings in places like Hawaii and Massachusetts, to the landmark 2015 Supreme

Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal across the country.

As with all of our book club picks, we have read this book along with you, and we have discussed it in our podcast Facebook group.

And today, I have the privilege of posing your questions and mine to Sasha Eisenberg.

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