Lady Justice

<b><b>Winner of the <i>LA Times</i> Book Prize in Current Interest <p/>An instant <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller! <p/>Stirring . . . Lithwick's approach interweaving interviews with legal commentary allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring. </b>--<b><i>New York Times Book Review <p/></i><b>In Dahlia Lithwick's urgent engaging <i>Lady Justice</i> Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story that begins in hope. </b><i>--<b><i>Boston Globe</i></b></i></b> <p/>Dahlia Lithwick one of the nation's foremost legal commentators tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism sexism and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency--and won</b> <p/>In the immediate aftershocks of Donald Trump's victory over Hilary Clinton in 2016 women lawyers across the country independently of one another sprang into action. They were determined not to stand by while the Republican party did everything in their power to pursue devastating and often retrograde policies. <p/>In <i>Lady Justice </i>Dahlia Lithwick one of the nation's foremost legal commentators illuminates these many heroes of the Trump years. From Sally Yates and Becca Heller who fought the Muslim travel ban to Roberta Kaplan who sued the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville to Stacey Abrams who worked to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail the women lawyers who worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic presidency in living memory.<b><b><i><b><i><b><b><i><br></i></b></b></i></b></i></b><br></b>A celebration of the legal ingenuity and indefatigable spirit of the women whose work all too often went unrecognized at the time <i>Lady Justice</i> is destined to be treasured and passed from hand to hand for generations to come.