Ruth Bader Ginsburg

a life

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Jane Sherron De Hart: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2018)

723 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-4000-4048-3
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OCLC Number:
1020310859

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"The first full life--private; public; legal; philosophical--of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the Justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and associates. In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, her meticulous jurisprudence: her desire to make We the People more united and our union more perfect. At the heart of her story and abiding beliefs--her Jewish background. Tikkun Olam, the Hebrew injunction to "repair the world," with its profound meaning for a young girl who grew up during the Holocaust and World War II. We see the influence of her mother, Celia Amster Bader, whose intellect inspired her …

2 editions

Subjects

  • Judges
  • Officials and employees
  • Women judges
  • United States. Supreme Court
  • United States
  • Biography

Places

  • United States