Vision : : a memoir of blindness and justice.

Title Vision : : a memoir of blindness and justice.
Names Tatel, David S.
Book Number DB122023
Narrator Tatel, David S.
Lescault, John.
Annotation "A memoir by one of America's most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers-who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity. David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America's second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved-or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal of what a great judge should be. Yet he has been blind for the past 50 of his 80-plus years. Initially, he depended upon aides to read texts to him, and more recently, a suite of hi-tech solutions has allowed him to listen to reams of documents at high speeds. At first, he tried to hide his deteriorating vision, and for years, he denied that it had any impact on his career. Only recently, partly thanks to his first-ever guide dog, Vixen, has he come to fully accept his blindness and the role it's played in his personal and professional lives. His story of fighting for justice over many decades, with and without eyesight, is an inspiration to us all."-- Goodreads. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Length 10 hours, 22 minutes
Title Status Active
Local Subject Biography - Individuals w/Disabilities - BID
Biography & Autobiography - BIO
Disability Interest - DII
History - US - HUS
History - HST
Medium Length Book - MD
Greater than 10 hours - GR
Adult Nonfiction - AN
Memoir - MEMO
2020-2029 published - 2020
Social Sciences - 300
Book Club - Kansas Talking Books - BKCB
Male Author - MA
LC Subject People with visual disabilities - United States - Biography
Judges - United States - Biography
Blindness - United States
Nonfiction
Language English
Medium Digital Book
Released 2024
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : 2024
Original Publication Reissue of: New York : Hachette Book Group, 2024. 9781668641439
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