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  From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Sarah Grimké: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays; inscribed by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  GRIMKE, Sarah. Edited and with an Introduction by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].

  Sarah Grimké: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays.

  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

  First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the editor on the title page, "For Justice Ginsburg - with deepest respect, admiration, & gratitude, In sisterhood, Elizabeth Ann Bartlett." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.” (a play on the name of famed 90s rapper The Notorious B.I.G.), Ginsburg was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. When she was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White, Ginsburg became both the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, earned degrees at Cornell University and Columbia Law School, and began her career as a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field. She spent much of her early legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights, winning many arguments ...

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