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Register-Guard Book Review

Register-Guard Book Review

http://www.registerguard.com/web/news/story.csp?cid=130176&sid=105&fid=35 Justice roberts recounts ACTS of injustice in her memoir By Karen McCowan, Published: September 15, 2008 In her new memoir, retired Oregon Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts credits “grit” for her trailblazing political and judicial career. But reading her account of the hurdles she overcame to become the first Oregon woman to sit on […]

Gresham Outlook – Report of Book Club Meeting

Gresham Outlook – Report of Book Club Meeting

http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=122127206143971500 Pioneer Oregon jurist frets over women’s political gains Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts says Sarah Palin ‘is a stranger to me’ By Sharon Nesbit, The Gresham Outlook, Sep 12, 2008. Betty Roberts, Oregon’s first woman Supreme Court justice, came to Gresham on Monday, Sept. 8, to talk with two local book clubs about her […]

Gresham Outlook – Book Review

Gresham Outlook – Book Review

http://www.theoutlookonline.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=122127024669552300 Roberts’ book has East County backdrop By mark garber, The Gresham Outlook, Sep 12, 2008. Betty Roberts’ fine autobiography – “With Grit and By Grace” – is at least three history lessons woven together: • It’s the personal history of a woman who, although born at a time when people of her gender had […]

Bookmonger Book Review

Bookmonger Book Review

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/aug/17/bookmonger-trailblazer-in-northwest-politics/ Appeared August 17, 2008, in the Kitsap Sun, the Olympian and other Washington community newspapers.  Bookmonger: Trailblazer in Northwest Politics Pens Memoir By Barbara McMichael With our primary election coming up early this year (next Tuesday — don’t forget to vote!), I thought it would be appropriate to look at a book about politics this […]