Thought leaders, and pioneers. What has been most personally inspiring for me has been the role also civil rights leaders, whether its the fight for racial or gender equality or Marriage Equality or freedom from discrimination based on sexual ore general addition or gender identification, both have ensured that across all the fronts our country continues to honor its promise, equal justice for all. Justice ginsburg was nominated by president clinton as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, taking her cincinnati 1993. Prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court, she served from 1980 to 1983 on the bench of the United States court of appeals for the district columbia court. She was professor of law a at rutgers and Columbia Law School. She is also served on the fact can i of the seminar at american studies and the as spend institute for humanistic studies and is a visiting professor at many universities in the United States and abroad. In 1978 she was a fellow at ther in for advan
A distinguished journalist in residence. Shes written in Oxford University press a short introduction to the Supreme Court which is apparently told accurately at the Supreme Court. A biography of Justice Blackmun and cowrote history of roe versus wade and in her newest book the burger court, turns her attention to court between 1969 and 1986 when the chief justice was nixon appointed Warren Burger. They were discussing at the desk about this. In the courts history, not much happened. There were big decisions, roe versus wade so that was good and that was it. Not so much. Greenhouse pics the idea apart and she and her coauthor michael grass share the ways in which the conservative mainly nixon appointed berger Court Reversed precedents set by the liberal court led by chief Justice Warren, curbing civil rights and liberties while extending first minute rights to businesses for the first time. I could draw connections here but you will listen to me talk about the court, you will hear from
Quartet, i knew that the london house. Cspan i saw earl at the london house. Guest that was a cspan long time ago. Guest chicago was quite something for music and still is. Cspan dr. Carla hayden the new librarian of congress. Guest thank you. President ial candidates Hillary Clinton and donald trump have written several books, many of which outline their world view and political philosophy. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton hays ruin it five books in one she remember he 2008 president ial campaign and her time as secretary of state in the obama administration. In 2014, booktv spoke with secretary clinton about the book, and you can find that interview on our web site. Published in 2003, living history holiday is secretary clintons condition of her time as first lady. She released a Childrens Book about letters written to her family pet, and also authored a Coffee Table Book about life as first lady. And in her first book, it takes a village she argued society shares the responsibil
Kinds of things go, because fear makes you act rashly and what happened was that the fear was played upon, and prison was presented, and mass incarceration was presented as the opt way to deal with crime, and we know that there is no correlation between the drop in crime rates and the rise in mass incarceration. Study after study has shown this. We know there are other routes. It did not have to be this route towards mass incarceration. Host were in california, the home of the strikes and your out. That has been effective in any way . Guest hardly. Californias tree strikes and your another, we have the rock fell are drug laws in new york, a whole host of other tough sentencing laws that have landed, again, millions of people in jails and prisons and under correctional supervision, draining our resources and draining us of the value of these human beings, who could be contributing to society in all kinds of ways. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. A History New
In this beautiful, beautiful space. I just want to thank esther and jackie and all of the people here. Please give them a hand. They are doing an incredible job with this wonderful space. We share with a real mission as you know, she will be talking about her new book called my life on the road. We were counting up for previous books. There are a bunch of bestsellers on the list. We think this is her 7th. In any case she is very prolific. Once you read this i am sure you will find it as telling and engaging as a writing always is. Now, to do a proper introduction would take up the entire hour which i dont think you want to do, and that is because of the number of posits she has championed, advocacy she has received and nurtured articles and essays a book she has written, campaigns she is organized, magazines she has launched and the awards she has one. I will mention the top highlights. She was the cofounder of ms. Man editor for many years. [applause] founded the National Womens polit