Redeeming the dream : the case for marriage equality / David Boies and Theodore B. Olson.

Includes index.

The inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on The Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 -- by the two lawyers who argued the case. On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's discriminatory Proposition 8, reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California. Relates how David Boies and Theodore B. Olson -- who argued against each other all the way to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore -- joined forces after that battle to forge the unique legal argument that would carry the day. As allies and not foes, they tell the story of the five-year struggle to win the right for gays to marry, from Proposition 8's adoption by voters in 2008 to its defeat before the Supreme Court in Hollingsworth v. Perry in 2013. Guides readers through the legal framing of the case, clarifying the constitutional principles of due process and equal protection in support of marriage equality and explaining the basic human truths they set out to prove when the duo put state-sanctioned discrimination on trial. Offers readers an authoritative, dramatic, and up-close account of the most important civil rights issue fought and won since Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia.--Slightly abridged from publisher's description.