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  "For Kiki & Marty - With love & esteem": Organizing the Presidency; Inscribed by Stephen Hess to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  HESS, Stephen; James P. Pfiffner [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].

  Organizing the Presidency.

  Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002.

  Third edition of this examination of the changing responsibilities of the executive branch jobs and their relationships with one another, from the time of Roosevelt to George W. Bush. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "For Kiki & Marty - With love & esteem, Steve, 10/30/02, Washington." Stephen Hess was a cousin of Ruth, and her family nickname was "Kiki" because she was a "kicky baby" as a child. 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.â€...

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