Condition: Very Good. SIGNED! Inscribed, personalized (See Photos)! Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, minor bumping at part of front top edge. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California.  ABOUT: In May of 2008, in a case that was watched across the nation and around the world, the California Supreme Court threw out the state's requirement that marriages involve a man and a woman, opening the door for same-sex unions. The court became the first high court in the nation to rule that sexual orientation is a protected class like race and gender, and that any classification on the basis of sexual orientation is subject to strict scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause of the state constitution. Now in Chief: The Quest for Justice in California, the author of that landmark decision, former Chief Justice Ronald M. George, describes that extraordinary case, a critical moment in the nation's ongoing legal and political controversy over the nature of marriage.

But Chief provides far more than a description of a single case. It chronicles an extraordinary career of public service, from George's time as a young deputy attorney general to his rise through the ranks of the California judiciary. This vivid account, as described to an oral historian interviewing the former Chief, offers an insider's detailed view of the recent legal history of America's most dynamic state: