Why Was Marriage At The Center Of The Fight For LGBT Civil Rights?

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🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In the latest NPR Politics Book Club, Danielle Kurtzleben talks with journalist Sasha Issenberg whose book The Engagement chronicles the path of marriage equality from a fringe issue to one of the nation's central civil rights fights. His book explores the complex ways that money and disagreements among activists shape political movements in the United States.

This episode: demographics and culture correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it is the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.6	I'm Danielle Curzley, then I cover Demographics and Culture, and today we are doing another
0:11.6	installment of our Book Club series.
0:13.5	And we're talking about a book that's about both.
0:16.3	Demographics and Culture.
0:17.9	Sasha Eisenberg's The Engagement is an exhaustive, deep, really kind of monumental look at the
0:23.7	long road to marriage equality in the United States.
0:27.3	From its early beginnings and places like Hawaii and Massachusetts to the landmark 2015
0:32.7	Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal across the country.
0:37.4	As with all of our book club picks, we have read this book along with you, and we have discussed
0:42.0	it in our podcast Facebook group.
0:44.1	And today I have the privilege of posing your questions and mine to Sasha Eisenberg.
0:50.4	He's a journalist who has written for an array of publications.
0:53.1	It's a list too long to get into.
0:55.2	He's also written three prior books, including 2012's The Victory Lab about modern political
0:59.8	campaigns.
1:00.8	Sasha, welcome.
1:01.8	Thanks Danielle.
1:02.8	We're really glad to be here.
1:04.2	Yes, well, we have a lot to get into.
1:06.2	So let's start with a very basic question.
1:08.8	Why was this book important to write to you?
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