Janet Reno

Janet Reno
Author: Paul Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1994-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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From the day she arrived in Washington to head the Justice Department, Janet Reno established herself as a tough, candid leader--easily one of the most intriguing people in the Clinton administration. Here, for the first time, is a riveting political biography of America's first woman Attorney General.

The Extraordinary Life of Jane Wood Reno

The Extraordinary Life of Jane Wood Reno
Author: George Hurchalla
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 081306547X

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Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award A fearless writer in the Miami wilderness Journalist, activist, and adventurer, Jane Wood Reno (1913–1992) was one of the most groundbreaking and colorful American women of the twentieth century. Told by her grandson, George Hurchalla, The Extraordinary Life of Jane Wood Reno is an intimate biography of a free thinker who shattered barriers during the explosive early years of Miami. Easily recognizable today as the mother of former attorney general Janet Reno, Jane Wood Reno’s own life is less widely known. Born to a Georgia cracker family, Reno scored as a genius on an IQ test at the age of 11, earned a degree in physics during the Depression, worked as a social worker, explored the Everglades, wrestled alligators, helped pioneer scuba diving in Florida, interviewed Amelia Earhart, downed shots with Tennessee Williams, traveled the world, and raised four children. She built her own house by hand, funding the project with her writing. Hurchalla uses letters he unearthed from the family homestead and delves into Miami newspaper archives to portray Reno’s sharp intelligence and determination. Reno wrote countless freelance articles under male names for the Miami Daily News until she became so indispensable that the paper was forced to take her on staff and let her publish under her own name. She exposed Miami’s black-market baby racket, revealed the abuse of children at the now infamous Dozier School for Boys, and supported the Miccosukee Indians in their historic land claim. Reno’s life offers a view of the Roaring Twenties through the 1960s from the perspective of a swamp-stomping woman who rarely lived by the norms of society. Titan of a journalist, champion of the underdog, and self-directed bohemian, Jane Wood Reno was a mighty personality far ahead of her time.

Janet Reno

Janet Reno
Author: Charnan Simon
Publisher: Childrens Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1994-09-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780516441917

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Reno's early years & her time in college & law school are outlined with black-and-white photographs. Timeline & index. Part of the Picture-Story Biographies series.

Janet Reno's Stewardship of the Justice Department

Janet Reno's Stewardship of the Justice Department
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
Publisher:
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2000
Genre: Conflict of interests
ISBN:

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Janet Reno

Janet Reno
Author: Virginia Meachum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780894905490

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Follow the life United States Attorney General Janet Reno, from her childhood near the Florida Evergaldes through her years at Harvard Law School, to the present.

Janet Reno

Janet Reno
Author: Judith Hicks Stiehm
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-04-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813072824

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The long-awaited biography of the first woman to serve as United States attorney general, written with exclusive access to the personal archives of Reno and her family and based on over 40 interviews with Reno’s friends and colleagues In this first full biography of former United States attorney general Janet Reno (1938–2016), Judith Hicks Stiehm describes the independent and unconventional life of a woman who grew up on a rural South Florida homestead and rose to occupy one of the top positions in the United States government, whose ethics and example served as inspiration for women in law and politics across the nation. In telling Janet Reno’s story, Stiehm incorporates personal details from her full and exclusive access to family papers and photos, as well as inside information from Reno’s own materials and interviews with over 40 of Reno’s personal and professional acquaintances. Stiehm begins by tracing Reno’s free-range childhood, her college years at Cornell and experience at Harvard Law School as one of 16 women in a class of over 500, the challenges she faced as a woman lawyer launching her career in 1960s Miami, and her 15 years as Miami-Dade state attorney. In 1993, Reno was appointed to serve in Washington as United States attorney general in the Clinton administration, the first woman to occupy the position in the history of the nation. Stiehm tells how Reno engaged with the East Coast elite as an outsider, seen by many as outspoken and eccentric—yet scrupulous, uncompromising, and immune to influence. Stiehm explores the reasons behind Reno’s decisions in cases she handled during her tenure, including the siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation; the Oklahoma City bombing; and the Elián González controversy. Janet Reno’s life was an illustration to many that it is possible to hold high office while consistently speaking and acting on principle. This biography examines the guiding forces that shaped Reno’s character, the trails blazed by Reno in her professional roles, and the lasting influence of Reno on American politics and society to this day.

Janet Reno's Stewardship of the Justice Department

Janet Reno's Stewardship of the Justice Department
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
Publisher:
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2000
Genre: Conflict of interests
ISBN:

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Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Author: Jill Norgren
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1479805998

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The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.

Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice

Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice
Author: Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2005-05-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 078797966X

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Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence--hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder--by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak—the renowned Harvard- and Tufts-based experts on preventing youth violence—this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent.