December 16: Susan Estrich

Susan Estrich, the first woman editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review and the first woman to run a major-party presidential campaign (for Michael Dukakis), was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on this date in 1952. Estrich’s books include Soulless: Anne Coulter and the Rightwing Church of Hate; Sex & Power; Real Rape (Estrich has been a rape victim); Getting Away with Murder: How Politics is Destroying the Criminal Justice System; and The Case for Hillary Clinton. Estrich is a rare liberal pundit on Fox News and a contributing writer for the Los Angeles Times and USAToday.

“When someone who trades on hate for the fun of it is doing that well you don’t put your head in the sand and wait for her to go away.” —Susan Estrich