Some memories of a long life, 1854-1911
By: Malvina Shanklin Harlan ; foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg ; epilogue by Amelia Newcomb ; afterword and notes by Linda Przybyszewski.
Contributors: Przybyszewski, Linda.
Edition: 2002 Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911.; Harlan, Malvina Shanklin, 1838-1916.; Judges' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Like Abigail Adams, Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed - and gently influenced - national history from the unique perspective of a political leader's wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911), played a central role in some of the most significant civil rights decisions of his era, including his lone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous case that endorsed separate but equal segregation.

And for fifty-seven years he was married to a woman who was busy making a mental record of their eventful lives." "After Justice Harlan's death in 1911, Malvina wrote Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911 as a testament to her husband's accomplishments and to her own."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.