david garden
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would seam from the previous reviews , this is a collection of her works , interpations of the law. .. American...does it say anything about the woman her self people in power,......they have one persona for there job/career and o another for their personal life......they are good at that I'll have to think about read it.. ?
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Sarah
I enjoyed the audio book which featured recordings of RBG reading many of the excerpts from the record. RBG is a fascinating and driven woman, and you will learn about her as a writer and as an interpreter of law. There is no effort here to shine much light on her private life, and the best humor comes from speeches by her husband. It is really the original writings of RBG with a bit of intro or context, not a Kitty Kelly style bio of the woman. Pair this with Notorious RBG and you begin to get a fuller picture, but the fandom pov of that book makes it a little too light weight, I like the two extremes together, like salted caramel, they balance each other.
Kate
I am listening to the audio book and am loving it. I don't know what this would be like read. I find it personal, but it is about she and her husband, and both were lawyers, and she is a Supreme, so there is a LOT of that. It doesn't read linearly, as in I was born, grew up, met married... When she discusses her friendships it is personal.. her marriage and her family... very personal. But a person who spends long hours at the law with a passion has a lot to say about the law. Her speeches are nto law speeches but eulogies, some very funny stuff here. She had a dry wit and the book sometimes has me laughing out loud.
Sammie
I was a bit disappointed. I thought it would be more about her life, but a lot of it was various legal cases in the US. It felt more like a book about the US legal system than a autobiography which is what I was expecting. While some of the cases were interesting, it was a bit long winded and boring unless you want to know in great details the specific legal aspects of cases in the US.
Andrea Engle
The book is arranged chronologically. It consists of a collection of writings by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with prefaces and post-scripts by her co-writers. It begins with an editorial from her 8th grade school newspaper in 1946, and concludes with a speech on highlights from the Supreme Court’s Term of 2015-16. You read the documents to draw your own conclusions about RBG, essentially unfiltered.
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