Conversations with RBG, Jeffrey Rosen
Conversations with RBG, Jeffrey Rosen
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Conversations with RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

Author: Jeffrey Rosen

Narrator: Peter Ganim, Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 6 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

"The audiobook version includes recorded conversations between the two from the 1990s to the present, delivering a compelling informal profile. As a permanent record of Ginsburg’s voice and fighting spirit, it’s an inspiring listen." — Paste

This program includes recorded conversations between Jeffrey Rosen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In this audiobook, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.

Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique audiobook, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with us the justice’s observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through. The affection they have for each other as friends is apparent in their banter and in their shared love for the Constitution and for opera.

With Justice Ginsburg’s approval, Rosen has collected her wisdom from their many conversations in which she discusses the future of the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade, her favorite dissents, the cases she would most like to see overruled, the #MeToo movement, how to be a good listener, how to lead a productive and compassionate life. These frank exchanges illuminate the steely determination, self-mastery, and wit that have inspired women and men of all ages to embrace the “Notorious RBG.”

Whatever the topic, Justice Ginsburg always has something interesting—and often surprising—to say. And while few of us will ever have the opportunity to chat with her face-to-face, Jeffrey Rosen brings us by her side as never before. Conversations with RBG is a deeply felt portrait of an American hero.

About Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen is the author of nonfiction books, including the recent Louis D. Brandeis and William Howard Taft. He is the president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center, a law professor at George Washington University, and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He was previously the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and a staff writer for The New Yorker.

About Suzanne Toren

Suzanne Toren has over 30 years of experience in recording.  She won the American Foundation for the Blind's Scourby Award for Narrator of the Year in 1988, and AudioFile magazine named her the 2009 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture.  She is also the recipient of multiple Earphones Awards. Her many credits include works by Jane Smiley, Margaret Weis, Jerry Spinelli, Barbara Kingsolver, and Cynthia Rylant. AudioFile also raves, “Toren brings a distinguishing warmth and power to her narrations. Her talents extend to both fiction and nonfiction, and in her recording career of 30-plus years she has given listeners heart-wrenching memoirs, lively history, engaging light fiction, and involving mysteries.” Toren also performs on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on November 04, 2021

Ruth Bader Ginsberg The book's author, Jeffrey Rosen, is an American scholar and law professor who's been called "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator." Jeffrey Rosen Rosen first met Ruth Bader Ginsberg in an elevator in 1991, when he was a law clerk and she was a judge on t......more

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt on November 12, 2019

Ruth Bader Ginsberg IS a treasure to this country, and a personal hero of mine, and all the millions of other roles she plays in the lives of strangers she doesn't even know - that's a spectacular mantle to wear, and she does it with panache! Conversations with RGB is a treat. Each is introduced with......more

Goodreads review by Donna on October 28, 2019

This is the RBG book I’ve been waiting for. My huge thanks go to Net Galley and Henry Holt Publishers for the review copy. This book will be publicly available November 5, 2019. Justice Ginsburg wants us to know that the sky is not falling. Though progressive thinkers see great cause for concern, pr......more

Goodreads review by Brice on July 10, 2022

I read this book because I have recently realized how little I know about the internal workings of the Supreme Court, and this was the only available book on Libby related to the Supreme Court. The book rocked! The author had a close relationship with RBG and basically just published the transcripts......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 17, 2020

I admit my knowledge and understanding of the Supreme Court is barely adequate, based mostly on headline news and gleanings from my readings in history and biographies. With some trepidation, I proceeded to read Conversations with RBG, worried it would be 'over my head.' I was immediately pleased to f......more