Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart, 723 pages.A wonderfully detailed, and accessible biography of America's most popular, iconic, and, arguably, the most consistently fair Supreme Court Justice.
The author met Ginsburg in 1998 or so, and between 2000 and 2006 was able to interview the justice about once per year.
De Hart follows Ginsburg from her childhood in Flatbush, through law school at Harvard and Columbia, her time teaching at Rutgers, and at NYU, and her travels and writing on comparative law. The author does a wonderful job showing Ginsburg as a woman committed to her work and her family as she began expanding her career and working on cases for the ACLU.
After a series of key cases before the Supreme Court, Ginsburg was appointed to the D.C. Circuit in 1980 by Jimmy Carter, and then to the Supreme Court by Bill Clinton in 1993. Throughout all of this De Hart keeps the book moving at a pace that keeps you reading. It's a fascinating story and it is extremely well-told.
No comments:
Post a Comment