Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
New York Times Bestseller
Featured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG
"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019
She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described "flaming feminist litigator" who made the world more equal. And an intergenerational icon affectionately known as the Notorious RBG. As the nation mourns the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, discover the story of a remarkable woman and learn how to carry on her legacy.
This runaway bestseller, brought to you by the attorney founder of the Notorious RBG Tumblr and an award-winning feminist journalist, is more than just a love letter. It draws on intimate access to Ginsburg's family members, close friends, colleagues, and clerks, as well as an interview with the Justice herself. An original hybrid of reported narrative, annotated dissents, rare archival photos and documents, and illustrations, the book tells a never-before-told story of an unusual and transformative woman who transcended divides and changed the world forever.
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Irin Carmon is a journalist covering gender, politics, and law. She's a contributing writer for the Washington Post's Outlook section and a distinguished fellow at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard. She has been a national reporter at MSNBC, Salon, and Jezebel.
Shana Knizhnik is a civil rights attorney. While a student at NYU law school, she created the Notorious R.B.G. Tumblr, a feminist website dedicated to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her lifelong fight for equality and social justice.
Carmon and Knizhnik write powerfully about the progression of Ginsburg's legal career. In particular, they make vivid the development of her trademark arguments ... In her fierce honesty, resolute realness, and, yes, innate sense of style (those collars!), Ginsburg emerges as a cultural icon worthy of her own fanbase--Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe
"What a wonderful book: The annotated dissents! The knockout photos! Why she likes to write through the night! The litany of big cases she won as a lawyer, and how she picked them! How she made Bill Clinton cry! Notorious RBG is a laugh-out-loud joy to read."--Rachel Maddow
"This breezy, fun and thoughtful take on the life of the Justice explains exactly why a new generation created and embraced the Cult of Ginsburg."--Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Oath and The Nine
"This rigorously reported book shines a new light on the groundbreaking cases Ginsburg litigated challenging gender stereotypes."--Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU
"A deeply original mashup of pop culture and serious scholarship. I plan to give a copy to both of my daughters."--Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove
"If you admired RBG before, Carmon and Knizhnik will make you fall in love with her, not only as a feminist hero but a human being."--Vogue
"Clark Kent had Superman. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has Notorious R.B.G.... Carmon and Knizhnik have turned R.B.G's robe into a cape."--New York Times Book Review
"[The Notorious RBG] book mixes cheeky fan art with a serious - and stirring - account of Ginsburg's life and work, covering everything from her trailblazing legal career to her current exercise regimen."--Rolling Stone
"After this treatment, surely, Biggie would agree that RBG truly is notorious."--NPR.org
"[F]ull of feminist fairy dust. Read it."--Elle.com
"[R]iddled with fascinating revelations about the beloved and, yes, notorious U.S. Supreme Court justice...the book eloquently and thoroughly demonstrates once and for all that RBG backs her whip smart, often snarky one-liners with a substantive feminist legacy."--Mic
"You may never get to chat with RBG herself, but through the book, you can let her quotes inspire you and guide your way in all of life's events."--Bustle
"In her fierce honesty, resolute realness, and, yes, innate sense of style (those collars!), Ginsburg emerges as a cultural icon worthy of her own fanbase."--Boston Globe
