Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1) My own words
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Language
English
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Description
"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on...
Author
Series
Law in the public square volume 2
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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. [This book] is the result of a period of collaboration between Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg...
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Language
English
Description
"This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with us the justice's observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through. The...
Author
Language
English
Description
In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to enforce those rights. Stories of the ordinary people who made the Bill of Rights come alive are featured throughout. These include Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who became a national civil rights leader; Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
202 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of biographies of Jewish female role models--selected in collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and including an introduction written by the late Supreme Court justice"--
8) The automat
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart that revolutionized the restaurant scene with vending machines that served affordable foods to those who had been ignored by regular restaurants, such as immigrants, the working class, and blacks.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in her own Words tells the improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn't get a job despite graduating first in her law school class in a tie and making Law Review at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. It also reveals both the public and private sides of a resilient, resourceful woman who has survived the hostility of the profoundly male universe of government and law...
10) RBG
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans - until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and career.
Series
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Conversation between Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen G. Breyer, Antony M. Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts and high school students from California and Pennsyvania some of which took place in 2006.
Series
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The first two selections on disc 1 feature U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, and Sandra Day O'Connor fielding questions in Washington from 50 high school students from the Philadelphia and Los Angeles areas. The students and justices discussed the significance of the judiciary and the ways that independence is protected by the Constitution. The third selection of disc 1 features "11 short video segments [in which] constitutional...
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary film which traces four generations of Russ family history and the family's famed lox and herring emporium, Russ & Daughters, in New York City's Lower East Side. Featuring the life stories of 100-year old Hattie Russ Gold and her sister, 92-year-old Anne Russ Federman.
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Language
English
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"This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest son, this volume includes dozens of speeches, some deeply personal, that have never before been published"--
"By any measure, Antonin Scalia lived an extraordinary...
