Displaying 1 of 1 2022 Format: Book Author: Totenberg, Nina, author. Title: Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships / Nina Totenberg. Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. Description: xiii, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm Subjects: Totenberg, Nina -- Friends and associates. Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020 -- Friends and associates. Radio broadcasters -- United States -- Biography. Judges -- United States -- Biography. Female friendship. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index. ISBN: 9781982188085 (hardcover) 1982188081 (hardcover) OCLC: 1299301214 System Availability: 2 # System items in: 0 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 0 Current Holds: 1 Place Request Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Availability' section below. Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Library Journal ReviewIn a memoir constructed around the strength of women's friendships to bring about social change, NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent Totenberg focuses on her friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsberg. They met when Totenberg was a reporter at the National Observer, seeking information on Ginsberg's legal brief asking the Supreme Court to declare a law that discriminated on the basis of sex to be unconstitutional, and the result was a 50-year friendship. With a 125,000-copy first printing.Publishers Weekly ReviewIn this luminous debut, NPR legal correspondent Totenberg delivers a riveting account of her 50-year friendship with Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The daughter of Polish violin virtuoso Roman Totenberg, the author was raised in the 1940s and '50s in a bustling home filled with music and culture. After giving Boston University a college try, Totenberg dropped out to become a journalist. Parallel to her story runs an equally enthralling look at Ginsburg's life, from her modest childhood in the 1930s as the daughter of immigrant factory workers to studying law at Harvard. Their lives collided in 1971 when Ginsburg, arguing a sex discrimination case before the Supreme Court, received a phone call from Totenberg, who was covering the story for the National Observer. While their friendship saw plenty of historic highs, including Totenberg's groundbreaking legal work at NPR and Ginsburg's confirmation as a SCOTUS justice in 1993, Totenberg writes, "The irony is that while work... defined each of us... our friendship was never about work." Indeed, it's Totenberg's writing about the personal hardships they overcame together--including the death of Totenberg's first husband, Sen. Floyd Haskell, and Ginsburg's bouts with colon, pancreatic, and lung cancer--that imbues her narrative with emotional depth, making this portrait of friendship all the more captivating. Readers are sure to be charmed. (Sept.) Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
