As a lawyer and a woman, you’d assume I would know more about the women on the Supreme Court than I do. Although I probably knew more about Ruth Bader Ginsburg than Sotomayor and Kagan, it was really only vague knowledge. I knew I liked Ginsburg’s opinions, and I agreed with her politics. I’d also heard something about cancer and falling asleep at some inappropriate place. Unfortunately, that’s about it. I can’t remember where I first saw Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth […]
Ain’t Nothing but a Ginsburg Thing
This book was a great way to pass some time on a 12-hour flight to China though I wished I had the “real” book because all the visuals were hard to see on my Kindle. I was a big fan of Ruth Bader Ginsburg before I read this and now I’m an even bigger fan. For those of you who are not familiar, this book developed from the Notorious RBG Tumblr blog started in 2013. Carmon & Knishnik do a great job of giving the […]
Sometimes You Get To Be Famous For A Job Well Done
In finishing Hamilton: The Revolution, and being mired by yet another round of inequality for women in our country, I decided to stay the course with another non-fiction book, this one about a dynamo of gender equality. I was familiar with Justice Ginsburg, but Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave me so much more. Notorious RBG chronicles the personal history of RBG, her experiences in law school and pursuing a law career while being a mother (not an easy job […]