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Really enjoyable. This is a nice easy read, and I really liked the excerpts from RBG's major majority & dissenting opinions with the annotations. I think she is my new favorite.
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An amazing book for an even more amazing woman. I now have an even bigger appreciation for RBG and plan on.following her advice for life like find what you want and do the work.
I love this as a pop culture phenomenon more than an actual biography, but the layout is fun and it's a great introduction to both the history of women and law and an interesting woman.
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I expected this book to be pretty fluffy and meme-y - and at times it was - but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is also an excellent, well researched biography. Yes, it's peppered with fan art and doesn't shy away from bias, but it does a good job of covering major RBG cases and opinions, and explaining the Supreme Court/legal profession in a way that younger readers will understand. My only annoyance was that the book seemed organized oddly, but that may have been because I read the
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Really didn't inspire me at all. The cartoons, photos, & "extras" made it more interesting than just plain text. The title was a turnoff for me. Any comparison/link to Christopher Wallace (aka Notorious B.I.G) is an insult to her intelligence. He was a thug. Much of the lawyerly writing was boring. Her devotion to her lifelong partner was admirable. She was diminutive in stature, but made up for it with her class, style and intelligence.
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Very interesting. I didn't know much about RBG before reading this. Insightful commentary about many of her briefs and landmark cases. She would never be appointed to SCOTUS in today's environment. Beware the frill!
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RBG is pretty much amazing.
Amazing introduction to and discussion of the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, my new hero!
Jan 16, 2016
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