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My own words / Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams.
Loaned to Another Library KF8745.G56 A3 2016
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020, author.
- Hartnett, Mary Eileen, 1959- author.
- Williams, Wendy (Writer on law), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020.
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader.
- United States. Supreme Court--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Women judges--United States--Biography.
- Women judges.
- Women lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Women lawyers.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch.
- Local Subjects:
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
- Summary:
- "My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on law and lawyers in opera, and on the value of looking beyond United States shores when interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Throughout her life, Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This book contains a sampling, selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams."--Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Early years and lighter side
- Tributes to waypavers and pathmarkers
- On gender equality: Women and the law
- A judge becomes a Justice
- The Justice on judging and justice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501145247
- 150114524X
- 9781501145254
- 1501145258
- OCLC:
- 946693458
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