Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year | A Washington Post Best Book of the Year“[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train...

Becker’ s most remarkable accomplishment is to weave a spellbinder of a tale that, despite a finale reported around the world, manages to keep readers gripped until the very end.” - The Washington PostA groundbreaking work of reportage by Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Jo Becker, Forcing the Spring is the definitive account of five remarkable years in American civil rights history, when the United States experienced a tectonic shift on the issue of marriage equality.

Focusing on the historic legal challenge of California’ s ban on same-sex marriage, Becker offers a gripping, behind-the-scenes narrative told with the lightning pace of a great legal thriller.