Inspired by the Tumblr that amused the Justice herself and brought to you by its founder and an award-winning feminist journalist. It draws on intimate access to Ginsburg's family members, close friends, colleagues, and clerks, as well an interview with the Justice herself.
Notorious RBG may be a playful project, but it asks to be read seriously. It’s an artisanal hagiography, a frank and admiring piece of fan nonfiction...That I responded so personally to it is a testimony to Ms. Carmon’s storytelling and panache.
Turning the pages, I felt as if I were on a tour of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Museum with two conscientious and loving young curators...This book isn’t a critical assessment of Ginsburg, either as a litigator waging feminist battles in the 1970s, or a justice for the last 22 years.
Along with delivering the standard biography, complete with a raft of charming photos, Carmon and Knizhnik write powerfully about the progression of Ginsburg’s legal career. In particular, they make vivid the development of her trademark arguments — particularly her longstanding belief that cases involving women’s rights, inextricably tied to reproductive freedom, should be tried using standards of equality, not privacy.
