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020			_a9781913348496
082			_aBiography HAR-J
100			_aHart, Jane Sherron De
245			_aRuth Bader Ginsburg : _ba life / _cJane Sherron De Hart
260			_aLondon _bScribe _c2020
300			_a588p.
365			_aINR _b699.00
500			_aIn 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. At the heart of her story and abiding beliefs was 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. Ruth’s journey began with her mother, who died tragically young but whose intellect inspired her daughter’s feminism. 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 US Supreme Court. 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. Intimately, personably told, this biography offers unprecedented insight into a pioneering life and legal career whose profound impact will reverberate deep into the twenty-first century and beyond.
650			_aBiography
650			_aGinsburg, Ruth Bader. United States.
650			_a Supreme Court -- Officials and employees.
650			_a Women judges -- United States -- Biography.
650			_aJudge Biography
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