Notorious RBG - Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik

Let’s be clear, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) gets all the stars. I hope I’m 1/4 as smart and 1/2 as fun as she is. This book only gets 4 stars because it could have been so much deeper. 

Ostensibly written by two millennial super fans of RBG, the book riffs on the memes that have developed on Tumblr and elsewhere to acknowledge RBG’s capturing of the cultural imagination. This book explores RBG’s life from a starting point of the zeitgeist rather than the law. Having gone to law school and read her writings from time to time to time to time, I would have liked a little more legal-nerd gratification. 

She’s a very fascinating person who somehow managed to have a really loving and balanced marriage to boot. I passed “impressed” as a reaction we’ll within the first chapter. As the Supreme Court nominations get increasingly political and polarized, I’m saddened to think such great legal minds may not get a chance to sit on the court.

4/5 Stars.