Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A Life
(Sprache: Englisch)
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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...
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...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Chapter 1Celia s Daughter
June 27, 1950, should have been a day of triumph for an ambitious young girl just turned seventeen the culmination of four years of outstanding academic achievement. It was graduation day at Brooklyn s James Madison High School. Ruth Bader had been chosen as just one of four students to speak for her eight hundred classmates. Instead, it was a day of wrenching grief.
Two days before, Ruth s mother, Celia, had succumbed to cancer after a four-year struggle. Ruth knew her mother had been waging a losing battle. Watching the physical deterioration of the parent who represented nurture and security, along with her father s silent grief, had been anguishing for the sensitive adolescent. Yet with Celia s encouragement, she won prestigious college scholarships, played in the school orchestra, and cheered on the football team as a baton twirler never once revealing to her schoolmates the illness that shadowed the Bader household in Flatbush. By the end of summer, the ground floor of the modest gray stucco house at 1584 East Ninth Street stood vacant, a symbol of loss and abandonment following her mother s death and her father s emotional and economic collapse.
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Celia Bader gave birth to her second daughter, Joan Ruth, on March 15, 1933, at Beth Moses Hospital in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. (Ruth s first name was dropped in kindergarten when there proved to be too many other children who answered to Joan.) The Baders brought the infant back to their apartment in Belle Harbor, a town near the ocean in the borough of Queens, just as they had her older sister, Marilyn. The new baby, energetic from the start, kicked so much that Marilyn promptly dubbed her Kiki. The name stuck.
The boroughs, like the rest of the country in 1933, faced an unprecedented economic depression. Factories lay idle. Construction had come to a standstill. The banking system had crumbled, wiping out the
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hard-earned savings of millions. One wage earner in four was laid off, and according to the U.S. Children s Bureau one out of five children was not getting enough to eat. As tax revenues dried up, teachers went unpaid. In other parts of the country, schools simply closed their doors. In the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, jobless men put up makeshift shacks of junked Fords and old barrels at the city dump dubbed Hoovervilles in derisive reference to President Herbert Hoover s economic policies.
Nathan Bader, Ruth s father, was no stranger to hard times. He had begun his own struggle to earn a living shortly after his arrival in New York as a shy thirteen-year-old Russian Jew from a town near Odessa. Denied admission to schools in the Old World because of anti-Semitism, he had attended only Hebrew school. His mother tongue was Yiddish until he learned English at night school in his new homeland. Nathan worked in his father s business, Samuel Bader and Sons, which specialized in inexpensive furs. By the 1920s, he felt financially secure enough to marry Celia Amster.
Celia, who arrived in New York City while still in her mother s womb, had been conceived in a little town near what is now Cracow, Poland. Growing up in a Yiddish-speaking household in Manhattan s Lower East Side, the primal homeland for immigrant Jews, she developed a passion for reading. Indeed, she so often walked down the bustling, crowded streets with her head buried in a book that on one occasion she tripped and broke her nose. Her father, recognizing that she was the most intelligent of his three daughters, had enlisted her help with his bills, which she wrote out in a mixture of English and Yiddish: for example, one cabinet, gefixed (repaired).
Though eager to continue her education, Celia had to
Nathan Bader, Ruth s father, was no stranger to hard times. He had begun his own struggle to earn a living shortly after his arrival in New York as a shy thirteen-year-old Russian Jew from a town near Odessa. Denied admission to schools in the Old World because of anti-Semitism, he had attended only Hebrew school. His mother tongue was Yiddish until he learned English at night school in his new homeland. Nathan worked in his father s business, Samuel Bader and Sons, which specialized in inexpensive furs. By the 1920s, he felt financially secure enough to marry Celia Amster.
Celia, who arrived in New York City while still in her mother s womb, had been conceived in a little town near what is now Cracow, Poland. Growing up in a Yiddish-speaking household in Manhattan s Lower East Side, the primal homeland for immigrant Jews, she developed a passion for reading. Indeed, she so often walked down the bustling, crowded streets with her head buried in a book that on one occasion she tripped and broke her nose. Her father, recognizing that she was the most intelligent of his three daughters, had enlisted her help with his bills, which she wrote out in a mixture of English and Yiddish: for example, one cabinet, gefixed (repaired).
Though eager to continue her education, Celia had to
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Autoren-Porträt von Jane Sherron De Hart
Jane Sherron De Hart is professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jane Sherron De Hart
- 2020, 768 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 1984897837
- ISBN-13: 9781984897831
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.10.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Readable and rewarding. . . . Ginsburg is a true-blue legal icon. NPR
Engaging and admiring.
The Wall Street Journal
In a revealing new biography, 15 years in the making, Jane Sherron De Hart helps untangle the mystery of the decorous Ginsburg as feminist gladiator.
The Atlantic
An in-depth biography of the Supreme Court justice who has become a pop-culture icon.
USA Today
De Hart s thorough biography relates this life story with a nice sense of the sweep of feminist and legal history that is contained within it.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Monumental. . . . The first comprehensive biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. . . . De Hart excels in explaining the majority opinions, and later the dissents, in which she participated with remarkable clarity, illuminating the issues, the competing positions, and the significance of each in language easily grasped by readers with no legal training.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
De Hart s great strength is her ability to explain Ginsburg's cases and the legal strategies she employed. . . . An insightful, fascinating, and admiring biography of one of America s most extraordinary jurists.
Publishers Weekly
Meticulously researched. . . . Ginsburg s career is skillfully placed within the context of American social and political history.
Library Journal
Passionate and thorough. . . . A major event in scholarship on American law.
Washington Monthly
Scholarly, yet accessible. . . . Rewarding and compelling.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Magisterial and timely. . . . Written in clear language and grounded in historical context.
The Forward
Compelling. . . . De Hart succeeds in showing us that the 107th person to be appointed to the Supreme Court is much more than a pop culture icon.
Jewish Journal
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masterful biography that adds depth and insight to Ginsburg's only-in-America life story.
Washington Independent Review of Books
De Hart displays an impressive grasp of each area of Ginsburg s legal influence, from women s rights to voting rights to gay rights to immigrant rights, with a particular focus on striking down laws that discriminated on the basis of gender.
Newsweek
A rigorous, comprehensive, deftly written biography.
The National Book Review
De Hart dynamically devotes more than 500 pages to the amazing life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. . . . This extensively documented account. . .is also quite engaging and very easy to read.
Booklist (starred review)
Washington Independent Review of Books
De Hart displays an impressive grasp of each area of Ginsburg s legal influence, from women s rights to voting rights to gay rights to immigrant rights, with a particular focus on striking down laws that discriminated on the basis of gender.
Newsweek
A rigorous, comprehensive, deftly written biography.
The National Book Review
De Hart dynamically devotes more than 500 pages to the amazing life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. . . . This extensively documented account. . .is also quite engaging and very easy to read.
Booklist (starred review)
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