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Women’s Work is Never Done

Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick

October 15, 2023 by reginadelmar Leave a Comment

Dahlia Lithwick’s Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America is both a history of women and the law in America and the stories of women who took on the Trump administration after 2016. Lithwick writes for Slate and is the host of the Amicus podcast. She is a lawyer, but she has worked in journalism for over twenty years. Her writing is accessible, the reader, or listener doesn’t have to be legally trained to appreciate this book. You really just need […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #abortionaccess, #Dahlia Lithwick, #Lady Justice, #SupremeCourt, #womensrights

reginadelmar's CBR15 Review No:19 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #abortionaccess, #Dahlia Lithwick, #Lady Justice, #SupremeCourt, #womensrights ·
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Not a Meal to Remember

Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg

July 11, 2023 by reginadelmar Leave a Comment

Reading this book was a bit like saving up to go to a really nice restaurant only to have the  the food be overpriced and underwhelming. The book uses the relationship between Totenberg and Ginsburg as the hook to get you to buy/read the book. The book is really the autobiography of Nina Totenberg, but her approach is to weave her career and personal life together with Ginsburg’s. The technique doesn’t work. Totenberg is too deferential to Ginsburg to say anything other than Ruth was […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, #SupremeCourt, #Totenberg, Nina Totenberg, Non-Fiction, RBG

reginadelmar's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, #SupremeCourt, #Totenberg, Nina Totenberg, Non-Fiction, RBG ·
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