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The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice

Joan Biskupic received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School and is the legal reporter for Reuters. She has written biographies of Sandra Day O’Connor and Antonin Scalia. Biskupic says this book is not exactly a biography of Sonia Sotomayor but a parallel narrative to trace the growing influe......more

I enjoyed reading this well-written, well-balanced nonfiction book on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Actually, the content is just as much about the recent history of the U.S. Supreme Court as it is about her. Lots of familiar political names come and go in the telling. Some of the behind-th......more

This is probably a little closer to a 3.5 star rating, minus one full star (from 5) for quoting so much of Sotomayor's memoir, My Beloved World, during the first half of the book. However, the last third of the book, detailing Sotomayor's cases and time in the Supreme Court, was fascinating. I doubt......more

Sonia Sotomayor is a fascinating and important public figure. Her life journey is inspiring to some and a reflection on the strength of working hard with the opportunities you're given. She's the first Latin@ to serve on the Supreme Court and her appointment was full of controversy. While this book......more

This books was one part biography and one part a racial history for Hispanics in the 20th century in America. While I certainly learned a great deal about a subject I should know more about, I never felt that this was easy reading. It was repetitive in places and it never seemed like the author ever......more