"From a leading judicial biographer comes the untold story of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court justice. To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009--made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable--flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto Rican nurse and a factory worker. Sotomayor saw opportunities and, with street smarts and savvy, she seized them. In ...
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"From a leading judicial biographer comes the untold story of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court justice. To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009--made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable--flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto Rican nurse and a factory worker. Sotomayor saw opportunities and, with street smarts and savvy, she seized them. In Breaking In, journalist Joan Biskupic weaves a political narrative centered on Sotomayor's fortuitous timing and personal striving. From housing projects in the Bronx to Princeton University and Yale Law School, Sotomayor's life tracked the ascent of Latinos in America. Along the way, she elicited admiration and, as a self-described "affirmative action baby," resentment. At every step in her climb to the federal bench, she almost did not make it. As Biskupic reveals with extensive research and reporting, Sotomayor developed the connections to navigate a system known for ravaging nominees, especially when race or ethnicity was an element. Obtaining close access to Sotomayor and interviews with the other justices, Biskupic shows how Sotomayor challenges an institution where justices, as a group, have been relatively bland and socially conforming even as they differ radically on the law. In a book that picks up where Sotomayor's bestselling memoir left off, Biskupic explores the difference this justice is making"--
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Very good in Very good jacket. [12], 274, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Joan Biskupic (born c. 1956) is an American journalist, author, and lawyer who has covered the United States Supreme Court since 1989. She has been Editor in Charge, Legal Affairs for Reuters since February 2012. She is also a legal analyst for CNN. From 1992 to 2000, she was the Supreme Court reporter for The Washington Post, and from 1989 to 1992 she was a legal affairs writer for Congressional Quarterly. She was awarded the 1991 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting on Congress for her coverage of the Clarence Thomas hearings for Congressional Quarterly. Biskupic has written a number of books on the Supreme Court, including biographies of Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Sonia Sotomayor. She is a regular panelist on Washington Week and has appeared on Diane Rehm Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Nightline and Face the Nation. Derived from a Kirkus review: A former Supreme Court correspondent for the Washington Post charts the spectacular career of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor-from the Bronx to the nation's highest court. Biskupic provides a cleareyed account of how someone advances a judicial career in 21st-century America. She reminds us that Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and that she excelled at Yale Law School. But the author comments on Sotomayor's networking-the vast array of supporters whom at various stages of her career propelled her advancement, perhaps most successfully when newly elected President Barack Obama was making his first appointment to the Supreme Court. The author focuses on some of Sotomayor's cases, including her "wise Latina" remark and her impassioned defenses of affirmative action, a policy she often credits for her own successful career. Most of all, however, we see in sharp relief the principal role that politics plays in court appointments.
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