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My Beloved World
by Sotomayor, Sonia
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307594882
- ISBN 13
- 9780307594884
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing of My Beloved World by Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.. Octavo, ix, 315pp. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated "first edition" on the copyright page. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, retail price on front flap. Signed by Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the title page. Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. Born on June 25, 1954, in the Bronx, New York City, she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976 and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979. Sotomayor served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York City from 1979 to 1984, before entering private practice. In 1991, she was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, becoming the youngest judge in the Southern District. In 1998, President Bill Clinton nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where she served until her Supreme Court appointment. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic and Latina Justice, as well as the third female Justice, to serve on the Supreme Court.
Synopsis
Sonia Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 1976 and from Yale Law School in 1979. She worked as an assistant district attorney in New York and then at the law firm of Pavia & Harcourt. From 1992 to 1998, she served as a judge of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and from 1998 to 2009 on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; she assumed this role on August 8, 2009.
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- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15334
- Title
- My Beloved World
- Author
- Sotomayor, Sonia
- Illustrator
- First edition, first printing of My Beloved World by Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0307594882
- ISBN 13
- 9780307594884
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- United States Supreme Court, Associate Justice Supreme Court, Chief Justice Supreme Court, Anthony Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, Anita Hill, Textualist, United States Constitution, John Roberts
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