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"Whose courage and brilliance are rarely equaled and never surpassed. With best birthday wishes": From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Louis Begley's Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters; Inscribed by Bill Bader to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
BEGLEY, Louis; [Bill Bader] [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
First edition of this case study on corruption in the justice system. Octavo, original publisher's boards. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Bader to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the front free endpaper, "March 2012. For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Whose courage and brilliance are rarely equaled and never surpassed. With best birthday wishes, - Bill Bader." 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 spen...
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