Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

The first full lifeâ€”private, public, legal, philosophicalâ€”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 herÂ associates.

In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburgâ€™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 beliefsâ€”her Jewish background. Tikkun olam, the Hebrew injunction to â€œrepair the world,â€ 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 daughterâ€™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).
Â Â Â From Ruthâ€™s days as a baton twirler at Brooklynâ€™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 schoolâ€™s first tenured female professor); becoming the director of the womenâ€™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.
Â Â Â 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 clubsâ€”aiming left, swinging right, hitting down the middle. Her years on the Supreme Court . . .Â
Â Â Â 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-10-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-10-16
Format	Kindle eBook

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

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