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  "Thank you for not only being my role model, but also my friend!": First Edition of Quindici; inscribed by Francesca Cetta to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  CETTA, Francesca [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].

  Quindici.

  Rome: Albatros, 2018.

  First edition of this coming-of-age novel. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial wrappers, in the original Italian. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "to Madame Justice Ruth Ginsburg, thank you for not only being my role model, but also my friend! Francesca." American 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 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White, Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court, Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.”, a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination, voting rights, and affirmative action in cases such as Unite...

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