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Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg A legal historian recounts the influential life of women's rights activist Belva Lockwood, the first woman to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century’s most surprising and accomplished advocates for women’s rights. As Norgren shows, Lockwood was fearless in confronting the male establishment, commanding the attention of presidents, members of Congress, influential writers, and everyday Americans. Obscured for too long in the historical shadow of her longtime...
Denmark 1995. In 1960, the post-war period, architecture in Denmark underwent dramatic changes. Volume 2 includes about 330 houses with almost 1000 illustrations. The guide is divided into 3 periods and takes as its subject categories of building whose function dictates special planning and expression. This guide is arranged thematically; individual categories of building are divided into time segments of about a decade. Housing, single-family houses, educational facilities, churches, cultural centers, sports facilities, social welfare and medical facilities-all are discussed here. The guide is supplemented with a comprehensive index and eight maps, which mean that the books may also be used as travel-guides.