Down to the last chapter of The Case of Rose Bird. Not particularly well written. The author could have shaved a good 50 pages off of it easily by acknowledging the late California former Chief Justice's intensely private nature and moving on, rather than whining about it.
And she very annoyingly uses inherently moderate language -- words like "liberal" and "conservative" -- to describe extreme points of view better described with terms like (respectively) "leftist" and "reactionary." This is the mark of somebody who either has a radical agenda, one way or another, or is buying into (rather than fighting) such an agenda, or is simply ignorant of what the words really mean.
Not particularly well edited, either: there's a block of photographs in the middle, without page numbers, but they're not "plates," on coated (or even just smoother) stock to allow for finer screening; they're printed on precisely the same paper as the text pages; therefore, they could just as easily have been printed in-context.
But it is an important book. Especially in this age of intense politicization -- mainly by the Far Right -- of SCOTUS.
I expect to finally begin Hearts and Minds tomorrow, on my 55th birthday. Funny how that works out.
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