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StatusOn Order
LocationMarshall District
TitleLife, Law & Liberty: A Memoir (Not for Online)
AuthorKennedy, Anthony
Call NoB
CollectionAdult New Arrivals
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International Standard Book Number 9781668052747
International Standard Book Number 1668052741
Dewey Decimal Classification Number B
Personal Name Kennedy, Anthony
Title Statement Life, Law & Liberty: A Memoir (Not for Online)
Imprint Simon & Schuster 20251014
Summary, Etc. "Anthony Kennedy did not take the usual path to a seat on the Supreme Court. ... Although Kennedy attended Stanford and the London School of Economics and then Harvard Law School, he made his way as a lawyer with a wide-ranging small-town practice that included criminal and civil trials, advice in forming and managing corporations, estate planning, and tax advice. For him, the law was not just an idea but a reality that touches Americans' lives every day. ... Born in Sacramento in 1936, the Irish-Catholic Kennedy grew up in a family active in civic affairs. ... [After he completed his education and] returned to Sacramento in 1963, it was to take over his late father's law practice. ... His work brought him into contact with the state's political elite. ... In 1975, Gerald Ford appointed him to the federal judiciary. He was just thirty-eight and the youngest federal appellate court judge in the nation. His life now turned toward Washington, but it was Sacramento that was the making of a consequential jurist"--

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