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Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law / Jeffrey Rosen.
Van Pelt Library KF8745.G56 R67 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosen, Jeffrey, 1964- author.
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020.
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader.
- Judges--United States--Interviews.
- Judges.
- Women judges--United States--Interviews.
- Women judges.
- Women judges--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Conversations with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
- Summary:
- This is a remarkable and unique book, an informal portrait of Justice Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with readers the justice's observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through.
- Contents:
- Her landmark cases
- Marriage between equals
- Roe
- The Bill of Rights and Equal Protection
- Sisters in law
- Nino
- The two chiefs
- When a dissent sparked a meme
- The cases she would overturn
- Measured motions
- #MeToo and a more perfect union
- Margaret Atwood meets RBG
- The heroic legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250235169
- 1250235162
- OCLC:
- 1099542953
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