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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
560 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"When Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court of the United States in 2010, he left a legacy of service unequaled in the history of the Court. During his thirty-four-year tenure, Justice Stevens was a prolific writer, authoring in total more than 1000 opinions. In THE MAKING OF A JUSTICE, John Paul Stevens recounts the first ninety-four years of his extraordinary life, offering an intimate and illuminating account of his service on...
63) Sandra Day O'Connor: how the first woman on the Supreme Court became its most influential justice
Author
Publisher
ECCO
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 419 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the incredible story of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who followed her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and eventually became the first Black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court in this picture book biography"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Clarence Thomas traces the odyssey of the African-American Supreme Court justice from his rural Georgia upbringing to the pinnacle of judicial power, capturing an isolated and conflicted man forced to straddle two different worlds.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An adaptation for middle graders based on the bestselling adult memoir, My Beloved World, in which the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor's details her achievements, which serve as a true testament to the fact that no matter the obstacles, dreams can come true. Includes an 8-page photo insert"--
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[xi], 434 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., photos ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A profile of the conservative Supreme Court justice offers insight into his absolute belief system and considerable body of work, evaluating Scalia as an "apex of power" whose opinions may have far-reaching consequences in the social counterrevolution.
Author
Series
Law in the public square volume 2
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
288 pages.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based discrimination in 1974. Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue is the result of a period of collaboration between Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
609 pages
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, sweeping biography of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The definitive biography of the first Latina and third woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court from the biographer of Condoleeza Rice and Laura Bush. The author delves behind the headlines to tell the compelling story of how the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants living in the South Bronx became one of the greatest legal minds in the country. With insight and thoughtful analysis, she explores the tenacity that makes Sotomayor a sharp, fearless...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Few judges provoke the ire of conservatives more than Thelton Henderson, Senior Judge of the Federal District Court of Northern California. His career in many ways parallels the larger historic arc of the Civil Rights movement and the changing vision of government -- from Jim Crow laws to Civil Rights victories and back again with recent attacks on affirmative action. Similarly reflected are the changes and conflicts in judicial philosophy during...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
324 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1801, John Marshall, a 45-year-old Revolutionary War veteran and politician, became the fourth chief justice of the United States. His nomination was a last-minute decision, taken in the chaos of an expiring administration. he would hold the post for the next thirty-four years (still a record), expounding the Constitution he loved. Before Marshall joined the Supreme Court, it was the weakling of the federal government, lacking in dignity and clout....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of I Dissent comes a biographical graphic novel about celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a modern feminist icon-a leader in the fight for equal treatment of girls and women in society and the workplace. She blazed trails to the peaks of the male-centric worlds of education and law, where women had rarely risen before. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1000L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells her own story for young readers for the very first time! As the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor has inspired young people around the world to reach for their dreams. But what inspired her? For young Sonia, the answer was books! They were her mirrors, her maps, her friends, and her teachers. They helped her to connect with her family in New York and in Puerto Rico, to deal with her diabetes...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The inspiring and timely story of Sonia Sotomayor, who rose up from a childhood of poverty and prejudice to become the first Latino to be nominated to the US Supreme Court. Before Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took her seat in our nation's highest court, she was just a little girl in the South Bronx. Justice Sotomayor didn't have a lot growing up, but she had what she needed -- her mother's love, a will to learn, and her own determination....
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 421 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far. John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything but, pointing to his conservative victories on voting rights and campaign finance. Yet he broke from orthodoxy in his decision to preserve Obamacare. How are we...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 836 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860-but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
979 pages
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracy. Scholars have portrayed Felix Frankfurter-Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice-as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justice, and Warren Court villain. Yet as Brad Snyder reveals, Frankfurter was a pro-government, pro-civil rights liberal. He helped found the ACLU, rejected shifting political...
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