List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The First Woman 2. A Woman in Charge 3. The Most Innovative Judiciary 4. Becoming Chief Justice 5. Hail to the Chief 6. Disorder in the Court 7. The Politics of Death 8. Big Business v. Rose Bird 9. The People v. Rose Bird 10. High Courts and Political Footballs 11. Paying for Justice Notes Bibliography Index
Kathleen A. Cairns is a lecturer of history and women’s studies at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. She is the author of several books, including Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America (Nebraska, 2013).
“This book is a smart, crisply crafted narrative that situates
a controversial jurist within a larger debate about the
impact of sound bite partisan politics on the American
judiciary.”-Vicki L. Ruiz, Distinguished Professor of History and
Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine
“Kathleen Cairns offers an insightful, brightly written, and
unvarnished history of Rose Bird’s years as California chief
justice, and a powerful reminder about the importance and fragility
of an independent judiciary.”-Dan Morain, editorial page editor and
columnist for the Sacramento Bee who covered the Bird court from
1984 to 1986 for the Los Angeles Times “Cairns deftly weaves Bird’s
biography into the larger stories of the time: the anti-feminist
backlash, the increasing importance of money in politics, and the
nasty, take-no-prisoners campaigns of the modern era. Extensively
researched and expertly written, it will delight scholars and
general readers alike. A must-read.”-Kathryn S. Olmsted, professor
and chair of the History Department at the University of
California–Davis and author of Right Out of California: The 1930s
and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
“Written in a style that is consistently clear and
sprightly, The Case of Rose Bird offers both enlightenment and
pleasure to readers interested in politics, the judiciary, women
and government, and California’s history.”-Susan Hartmann,
professor emeritus of history at Ohio State University and author
of The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment
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