![]() ![]() REVISED AND UPDATED WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jane Sherron De Hart is professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Intimately, personably told, this biography offers unprecedented insight into a pioneering life and legal career whose profound mark on American jurisprudence, American society, and our American character and spirit will reverberate deep into the twenty-first century and beyond. All this, even before being nominated in 1993 to become the second woman on the Court, where her crucial decisions and dissents are still making history. ![]() It stretches from Ruth's days as a baton twirler at Brooklyn's James Madison High School to Cornell University to Harvard and Columbia Law Schools to becoming one of the first female law professors in the country and having to fight for equal pay and hide her second pregnancy to avoid losing her job to becoming the director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project and arguing momentous anti-sex discrimination cases before the U.S. ![]() Ruth's journey begins with her mother, who died tragically young but whose intellect inspired her daughter's feminism. At the heart of her story and abiding beliefs is her Jewish background, specifically the concept of 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. The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a Life by Jane Sherron De Hart NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A vivid account of a remarkable life." - The Washington Post In this comprehensive, revelatory biography-fifteen years of interviews and research in the making-historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence. ![]() Verkäufer: the_nile_uk_store ✉️ (10.044) 99.1%,Īrtikelnummer: 385493989261 Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Ein Leben von Jane Sherron De Hart (englisch) Taschenbuch Buch. ![]()
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