Event
Harry S Truman Memorial Reading Group, July, 2022: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Jane Sherron DeHart
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Fee:
Free. Free! Copies for borrow may be acquired at Mid Continent Public LibraryLocation:
Mid Continent Public Library North Independence Branch, Independence, MODates & Times
Date:
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Time:
2:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Talk
Starts at 2PM (CT)
Description
This group is dedicated to the memory of President Truman, and explores titles related to American history, presidential history, and American government.
Copies of the book are available to borrow at Mid Continent Public Library.
From the publisher:
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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