《some memories of a long life》是2003年7月Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Malvina Shanklin Harlan。
基本介紹
- 中文名：some memories of a long life
- 作者：Malvina Shanklin Harlan
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780812967449
內容簡介
Like Abigail Adams, Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed—andgently influenced—national history from the unique perspective of apolitical leader’s wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice JohnMarshall Harlan (1833–1911), played a central role in some of themost significant civil rights decisions of his era, including hislone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous casethat endorsed separate but equal segregation. And for fifty-sevenyears he was married to a woman who was busy making a mental recordof their eventful lives.
After Justice Harlan’s death in 1911, Malvina wrote Some Memoriesof a Long Life, 1854–1911, as a testament to her husband’saccomplishments and to her own. The memoir begins with Malvina, thedaughter of passionate abolitionists, becoming the teenage bride ofJohn Marshall Harlan, whose family owned more than a dozen slaves.Malvina depicts her life in antebellum Kentucky, and her courageousdefense of the Harlan homestead during the Civil War. She writes ofher husband’s ascent in legal circles and his eventual appointmentto the Supreme Court in 1877, where he was the author of opinionsthat continued to influence American race relations deep into thetwentieth century. Yet Some Memories is more than a wife’s accountof a famous and powerful man. It chronicles the remarkableevolution of a young woman from Indiana who became a keen observerof both her family’s life and that of her nation.
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg began researching the history ofthe women associated with the Supreme Court, the Library ofCongress sent her Malvina Harlan’s unpublished manu*.Recalling Abigail Adams’s order to “remember the ladies,” JusticeGinsburg has guided its long journey from forgotten document topublished book. Some Memories of a Long Life includes a Foreword byJustice Ginsburg, as well as an Afterword by historian LindaPrzybyszewski and an Epilogue of the Harlan legacy by AmeliaNewcomb. According to Library Journal, “This is the sort of bookyou call a publishing event.”
From the Hardcover edition.
