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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By: Jane Sherron de Hart
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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 her 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 daughter’s feminism, insisting that Ruth become independent, as she witnessed her mother coping with terminal cervical cancer (Celia died the day before Ruth, at seventeen, graduated from high school).
From Ruth’s days as a baton twirler at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School, to Cornell University, Harvard and Columbia Law Schools (first in her class), to being a law professor at Rutgers University (one of the few women in the field and fighting pay discrimination), hiding her second pregnancy so as not to risk losing her job; founding the Women's Rights Law Reporter, writing the brief for the first case that persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down a sex-discriminatory state law, then at Columbia (the law school’s first tenured female professor); becoming the director of the women’s rights project of the ACLU, persuading the Supreme Court in a series of decisions to ban laws that denied women full citizenship status with men.
Her years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, deciding cases the way she played golf, as she, left-handed, played with right-handed clubs—aiming left, swinging right, hitting down the middle. Her years on the Supreme Court . . .
A pioneering life and legal career whose profound mark on American jurisprudence, on American society, on our American character and spirit, will reverberate deep into the twenty-first century and beyond. Social justice Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & Academics Gender Studies Politics & Activism Human Rights Law School Equality Discrimination Social Sciences Law Politicians Suffrage

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The book not only told about RBG & her dissents & arguments on various laws but also explains the process of how issues/laws get to the Supreme Court & the various stages they must go threw. Lower court decisions than challenged again in upper courts. Interesting because it showed by who we elect & how that affects not only the Senate/House decisions but Who gets to be on the court & possibly how the court will decide to hear a case or postpone to later date or not!! Very interesting especially with the current Political situation!

Great Informative, Food for thought, keeps your attention especially with regards to America’s current politics!

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I knew of RBG but hearing her story of everything she experienced and accomplished was eye-opening. She overcame so much during a challenging time for women and minorities and it really shows how important her place in history is. I appreciated hearing more in depth of the happenings of how decisions are made and considerations that layman’s like me don’t quite understand. Much respect to RBG!!🫶🏽 Must read/listen if you ever get a chance!

Interesting and eye-opening!

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Fascinating and well written. A true public servant. Her impact on our current legal system is outstanding.

an exceptional life.

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Finding a person with principles is a challenge. Finding a person who has fought lifelong for their principles with results is rare.
RBG was a bad ass, a sweet heart, an awesome mom and a warrior. A rare and precious being and this book reveals those layers in a way that engages the reader and warms the heart.

Just everything RBG

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While very long and extremely detailed this is worth every moment to listen to and understand the remarkable commitment of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to human rights, to feminism, and most importantly to equal rights for men and women! While I have read other biographies and her own compilation of writings, I found this a profound and moving account of the precision and deliberation Justice Ginsburg has made the hallmarks of her life. I can only hope we will see a return to the prestige and confidence of the supreme court by overturning the crash politics and patriarchal insistence of Congress and the current court. I am so grateful for her.

Remarkable!

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