Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Irin Carmon; Shana Knizhnik

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9781504645423: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

ISBN 10: 1504645421 ISBN 13: 9781504645423

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, 2015

Nearly a half-century into being a feminist and legal pioneer, something funny happened to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the octogenarian won the internet. Across America, people who weren't even born when Ginsburg made her name are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute. In a class of its own, and much to Ginsburg's own amusement, is the Notorious RBG Tumblr, which juxtaposes the diminutive but fierce Jewish grandmother with the 350-pound rapper featuring original artwork submitted from around the world.

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court -- with the fierce dissents to match -- get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stands as a testament to how far we can come with a little chutzpah.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“The authors make this unassuming, most studious woman come pulsing to life. . . . Notorious RBG may be a playful project, but it asks to be read seriously. . . . That I responded so personally to it is a testimony to [its] storytelling and panache.”— Jennifer Senior, New York Times

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame—she has only tried to make the world a little better and a little freer.

But nearly a half-century into her career, something funny happened to the octogenarian: she won the internet. Across America, people who weren’t even born when Ginsburg first made her name as a feminist pioneer are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute.

Notorious RBG, inspired by the Tumblr that amused the Justice herself and brought to you by its founder and an award-winning feminist journalist, is more than just a love letter. It draws on intimate access to Ginsburg's family members, close friends, colleagues, and clerks, as well an interview with the Justice herself. An original hybrid of reported narrative, annotated dissents, rare archival photos and documents, and illustrations, the book tells a never-before-told story of an unusual and transformative woman who transcends generational divides. As the country struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stands as a testament to how far we can come with a little chutzpah.

About the Author:

Irin Camron covers gender, politics, and law for MSNBC, and is a visiting fellow at Yale Law School's program for the study of reproductive justice. A former staff writer at Salon and Jezebel, she was named a best television pundit of the year by Mediaite and selected by Forbes for its 30 under 30 in Media list. Her work has been honored by Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice New York, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, and the New York Abortion Access Fund. She lives in New York.

Shana Knizhnik is a third year law student at New York University School of Law, where she is an articles editor for the New York University Law Review, and the creator of the Notorious RBG Tumblr blog. She has served on the boards of Drexel University's OUTLaw and the Coalition on Law and Representation, and has interned at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, the ACLU's Criminal Law Reform Project, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and the Legal Aid Society's Juvenile Rights Practice. Following her law school graduation, Shana will clerk for federal court of appeals judge Dolores Sloviter on the Third Circuit before beginning her career as a public defender. She lives in New York.

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