{"product_id":"9781984897831","title":"Ruth Bader Ginsburg","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A vivid account of a remarkable life.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of her story and abiding beliefs is her Jewish background, specifically the concept of \u003ci\u003etikkun olam\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ruth’s journey begins 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 U.S. Supreme Court.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 mark on American jurisprudence, American society, and our American character and spirit will reverberate deep into the twenty-first century and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eREVISED AND UPDATED WITH A NEW AFTERWORD\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Sherron de Hart, Jane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44048653549792,"sku":"","price":14.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d29fe2bc-855d-4186-98b7-ce1488ffee85.jpg?v=1686409902","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9781984897831","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}