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Happy birthday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The late Supreme Court justice, who died of complications from cancer last September, would have turned 88 on March  The lifelong pioneer for gender equality was only the second woman to serve on the nation's highest court. Hers was an enormous life, full of glass-ceiling-shattering accomplishments, impassioned dissents and pop culture dominance. At the time of her passing, perhaps no public servant was more revered.

Such a life makes for a good book, or even eight. 

To better understand, appreciate and celebrate the life of the late justice, look to one of these books written by or about Ginsburg, starting with a new release, out Tuesday.

“Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union,” by Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler. Ginsburg’s curation of her own legacy is a compilation of briefs, oral arguments, opinions, lectures and speeches that traces her history of work for gender equality – and was submitted to her publisher just three weeks before her death. That striking title comes from a passage from Deuteronomy that hung on a wall in her chambers and was her life’s calling.

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"The Way Women Are: Transformative Opinions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg," edited by Cathy Cambron. Ginsburg spent her life defying expectations of “the way women are” to become one of our most influential jurists. This collection showcases some of her most significant opinions and dissents, with explanatory notes to make her writings more accessible to the average reader.

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"My Own Words," by Ginsburg. This collection of Ginsburg's writings and speeches goes as far back as the eighth grade, focusing on her efforts as a women's rights crusader. She also recalls her friendl

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By the time President Clinton nominated then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, she had already spent decades working tirelessly for a more just society, a society in which the Constitution works for all the people, a society in which the Constitution leaves no one behind. After her appointment to the Court, she continued to work toward this ideal, this idea that we should have an ever more inclusive Constitution and we should make sure that our laws are not structured in a way that they hold people back from achievement of their full human potential.

On the Court, Justice Ginsburg worked towards this ideal in many cases. Maybe most memorably in the VMI (Vermont Military Institute) opinion. VMI involved the question of whether a state-run military institution could exclude women. Up until that point, the Virginia Military Institute, an elite school with a storied history, incredible facilities and powerful alumni, had only accepted male applicants. The Clinton Administration sued to force the Commonwealth of Virginia to open up their doors to female cadets. Once sued, Virginia tried to create a parallel institution for women. In an opinion for seven justices, over only one dissent, Justice Ginsburg wrote that the substitute institution was nowhere near equal. It did not have the same facilities and opportunities. It couldn’t possibly accumulate, in any amount of time, the same prestige. So, to satisfy the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, VMI must admit female cadets. Justice Ginsburg visited VMI in and found, she said, that the Institute had been enhanced by the addition of female cadets.

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Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; néeBader; March 15, – September 18, ) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from until her death in She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. During her tenure, Ginsburg authored the majority opinions in cases such as United States v. Virginia&#;(), Olmstead v. L.C.&#;(), Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc.&#;(), and City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York&#;(). Later in her tenure, Ginsburg received attention for passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed "the Notorious R.B.G.", a moniker she later embraced.

Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Just over a year later her older sister and only sibling, Marilyn, died of meningitis at the age of six. Her mother died shortly before she graduated from high school. She earned her bachelor'