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41) Sonia Sotomayor
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Describes the judge's remarkable career and the obstacles she overcame to become America's first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice.
Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 227 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book immerses readers in the public and private life of groundbreaking Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, detailing the historical events surrounding her rise to a coveted position on the nation's highest court"--
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the judge, she was a young Jewish girl growing up in Brooklyn, inspired by books, past female trailblazers, and her mother to make the world a better, more just place to be. So even when people turned her away—for being a girl and for being Jewish—she never stopped fighting for equal treatment for everyone by pushing back against unjust laws and the beliefs around them."--publisher's website....
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
378 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bill Clark was Ronald Reagan's single most trusted aide, perhaps the most powerful national security advisor in American history. His close relationship with Reagan allows a special insight into the President as well as other close friends from the earliest Reagan years: Lyn Nofziger, Cap Weinberger and Bill Casey. Also featured are the exquisite Clare Boothe Luce; the elegant Nancy Reagan; the mercurial Alexander Haig; Britain's "Iron Lady", Margaret...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ketanji Brown Jackson is no stranger to overcoming obstacles. When a high school guidance counselor told her she should set her sights lower than Harvard, she decided to go to Harvard for college and law school. When she became a public defender and saw inequalities in the justice system, she used her legal skills to advocate for people who needed help, but couldn't afford an attorney. Ketanji's path to the Supreme Court was unique. She's the only...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
614 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the career of the former chief justice and chairman of the Warren Commission discusses his rise in California politics and evaluates his role in defining political moments from the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is famous for her stylish collars (called jabots) and her commanding dissents. This opera-loving New Yorker has always spoken her mind; as a young lawyer, RBG advocated for gender equality and women's rights when few others did. She gained attention for the cases she won when arguing in front of the Supreme Court, before taking her place on the bench in 1993. Author Patricia Brennan Demuth answers all the question about...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 723 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first full life--private; public; legal; philosophical--of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the Justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and associates. In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
644 p.
Language
English
Description
A deeply researched portrait of the controversial Supreme Court justice covers his career achievements, his appointment in 1986, and his resolve to support agendas from an ethical, rather than political, perspective.
Author
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thorough, illustrated biography discussing the childhood, career, family, and term of William Howard Taft, twenty-seventh president of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
The Supreme Court judge details her achievements in her career and life, describing her childhood in the Bronx, dealing with juvenile diabetes, and her appointment to the highest court in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. At the back are an excellent timeline and photos. This volume features Sonia Sotomayor, the first...
60) Notorious RBG
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 CDs (310 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court, with the fierce dissents to match, get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stands...
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