"The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming against the tides, spurred on by her freethinking liberal grandfather, determined to become a lawyer despite her traditional, conservative father's objections. She forges a lifelong friendship with a young German Jewish woman whose family died in the concentration camps. And while her grandfather rises to the Supreme Court, Meredith enlists in the most pressing causes of her time, fighting for civil rights and an end to the Vietnam War. From the bright morning of JFK's inauguration, through the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, Meredith joins the vanguard of a new generation of women, breaking boundaries socially, politically, and professionally. But when the violence of the era strikes too close to home, her once tightly knit family must survive a devastating loss, and rethink their own values and traditions in light of the times"--"La justice est un combat de chaque instant... Fille et petite-fille d' minents avocats de Manhattan, tout p destine Meredith McKenzie suivre la voie tra e par ses anc tres : de brillantes tudes, un mariage parfait, une vie au sein des lites. Mais, prise de justice et de liber , c'est pour les minori s et les plus munis qu'elle veut se battre. Un choix que ne comprennent pas les siens, bien ci s la faire retourner dans le droit chemin. Tandis que son grand-p re acc de la Cour supr me, Merrie s'engage dans les causes les plus pressantes de son poque, luttant pour les droits civiques et la fin de la guerre du Vietnam. Mais lorsque la violence frappe sa propre famille de plein fouet, tous doivent apprendre survivre une perte vastatrice et repenser leurs valeurs ..."