![]() ![]() The second part covers tributes she gave to others over the years, including to Belva Lockwood, the first woman to gain admission to the Supreme Court bar the Jewish justices (of whom she is the sixth) Sandra Day O’Connor and Gloria Steinem. ![]() The first, “The Early Years and the Lighter Side,” begins with essays she wrote in elementary school and college and ends especially by focusing on her relationship with Justice Scalia, including the text of the Scalia/Ginsburg opera. The book works well to give a sense of the life and passions of the second woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court: her deep love for her husband, her commitment to equality for women and for justice, and her constant joy at being on the court. There are brief introductions to place the passages in the context of her life and their times. The new book by Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not an autobiography, but rather a collection of her essays, speeches, and statements from the bench dating from her childhood through the present. ![]()
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