Format:
Book
Title:
Flagrant conduct : the story of Lawrence v. Texas : how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans / Dale Carpenter.
Author:
Carpenter, Dale, 1966-
Call Number:
342.73087 CARPENTE
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2012.
Description:
xv, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Lawrence, John Geddes -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Contents:
A crime of deep malignity -- The city and the cause -- The defendants and the troublemaker -- The department and the deputies -- The intrusion -- Uncivil disobedience -- A probable explanation for an improbable case -- The homosexual status law -- From the jail to the bar -- From the gay bar to the bar -- Into the Texas courts -- The constitutional case takes shape -- The politics of law -- The constitutional mainstream -- Mismatch at the Supreme Court -- Respect for their private lives -- Epilogue : sweet land of liberty.
ISBN:
0393062082
9780393062083 (hardcover)