Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits―and Won - Softcover

"Winning Marriage may well stand as the definitive political history of marriage equality. It's certainly the book that leaders of the movement deserve, and that latecomers to the movement need to read. After each new pro-equality court ruling, Americans seem to look around in wonder and ask, How did we get here? With this riveting, passionate book, Solomon has provided the answer."-- "Slate" "Solomon's narrative serves as a tribute to those who made gay marriage happen and as a manual for how to craft a successful political movement in the future."-- "Publishers Weekly" "A brisk, readable, and often exhilarating first-person account of key battles that set the stage for today's astonishing momentum, it makes clear that parentage rights for this success belong to many.-- "Huffington Post" "The book is more of a political science text than a history, giving a behind-the-scenes look at how influence, money, and connections drive the political system at the state level. The author offers the blow-by-blow story of Senate arguments and backroom negotiations. As one might expect from a work on such a controversial subject, the narrative covers not only the intellectual aspects of the political struggle but also offers emotional stories of the acceptance and rejection that led politicians to vote the way they did. The prose style is lean, fast, and to the point, interspersed with engaging psychological analysis."-- "Library Journal"

Updated, with a new foreword from former Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick and a new afterword that includes the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution guarantees the right to same-sex marriage, author Marc Solomon reveals the inner workings of the advocacy movement that has championed and protected advances won in legislative, court, and electoral battles over the decade since the landmark Massachusetts ruling guaranteeing marriage for same-sex couples for the first time. (5,200 copies of the hardback sold since its November 2014 hardback publication.)