The newest entry in the increasingly popular series collects
fascinating and in-depth interviews with Bill Moyers, Nina Totenberg,
and more, and conversations (with Antonin Scalia and high school
students) from throughout the long, ground-breaking career of one of the
greatest, most influential, and most exciting legal minds in American
history.
From her start in Depression-era New York, to her final days at the
pinnacle of the American legal system, Ruth Bader Ginsburg defied
convention, blazing a trail that helped bring greater equality to women,
and to all Americans. In this collection of in-depth interviews --
including her last, as well as one of her first -- Ginsburg details her
rise from a Brooklyn public school to becoming the second woman on the
United States Supreme Court, and her non-stop fight for gender equality
along the way. Besides telling the story behind many of her famous court
battles, she also talks openly about motherhood and her partnership with
her beloved husband, her Jewishness, her surprising friendship with her
legal polar opposite Justice Antonin Scalia, her passion for opera, and,
in one of the collection's most charming interviews, offers advice to
high school students wondering about the law. It is, in the end, both an
engrossing look into a fascinating life, and an inspiring tribute to an
American icon.
