Joseph Tartakovsky
Joseph Tartakovsky (/frʌm/; born December 10, 1981) is an American lawyer, writer, and historian, and the former Deputy Solicitor General of Nevada. Tartakovsky is presently an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California in San Francisco where he prosecutes criminal cases.
Joseph Tartakovsky | |
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Tartakovsky in 2018 | |
| Deputy Solicitor General of Nevada | |
| In office 2015–2018 | |
| Attorney General | Adam Paul Laxalt |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Jordan T. Smith |
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| Born | December 10, 1981 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (BA) Fordham Law School (JD) |
He is the author two books: The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law (2018) and No Way Home: The Crisis of Homelessness and How to Fix It with Intelligence and Humanity (2021). His book, The Lives of the Constitution, became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.com in the three areas: constitutional law, legal history, and legal biography.
His writings have appeared in publications that include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and Forbes. He has been a guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. C-SPAN's Book TV featured a book release event for The Lives of the Constitution in Washington, D.C.
A video featuring Tartakovsky and based on his book's chapter on Alexander Hamilton, filmed by PragerU, has received over 1.6 million views on YouTube.