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Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships (edición 2022)

por Nina Totenberg (Autor)

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Biography & Autobiography. Family & Relationships. Nonfiction. HTML:Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth's legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated "on the basis of sex" to be unconstitutional. In a time when women were fired for becoming pregnant, often could not apply for credit cards or get a mortgage in their own names, Ruth patiently explained her argument. That call launched a remarkable, nearly fifty-year friendship.

Dinners with Ruth is an extraordinary account of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace. At the story's heart is one, special relationship: Ruth and Nina saw each other not only through personal joys, but also illness, loss, and widowhood. During the devastating illness and eventual death of Nina's first husband, Ruth drew her out of grief; twelve years later, Nina would reciprocate when Ruth's beloved husband died. They shared not only a love of opera, but also of shopping, as they instinctively understood that clothes were armor for women who wanted to be taken seriously in a workplace dominated by men. During Ruth's last year, they shared so many small dinners that Saturdays were "reserved for Ruth" in Nina's house.

Dinners with Ruth also weaves together compelling, personal portraits of other fascinating women and men from Nina's life, including her cherished NPR colleagues Cokie Roberts and Linda Wertheimer; her beloved husbands; her friendships with multiple Supreme Court Justices, including Lewis Powell, William Brennan, and Antonin Scalia, and Nina's own familyâ??her father, the legendary violinist Roman Totenberg, and her "best friends," her sisters. Inspiring and revelatory, Dinners with Ruth is a moving story of the joy and true meaning of friendsh
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Título:Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Autores:Nina Totenberg (Autor)
Información:Simon & Schuster (2022), 320 pages
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Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

I listened to this on audio, read by Nina, and it had a very conversational tone to it that was appealing. The focus was mostly on friendships with Ruth, Cokie Roberts and others, in good times and bad. There was some discussion of politics, mostly in a balanced way as Nina had both liberal and conservative friends. I enjoyed this memoir. ( )
  gaylebutz | Mar 12, 2024 |
Even though the title is misleading, I really enjoyed this book. While it did contain some stories of the author's friendship with RBG, the book is really a memoir of Nina Totenberg's life, which was/is quite interesting in the telling. It was nice to read about the support from her female friends (and some men too) both in and out of the workplace. Women of a certain age will be able to identify with the sexist treatment of women in the workplace in the 60s, 70s and 80s. While it shows how much our culture has changed, it also shows, especially with the current court, that women's rights still need fighting for. ( )
  ellink | Jan 22, 2024 |
Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg was another bingo book: a memoir. I had read an earlier book about the women of NPR--Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie--so was familiar with Nina Totenberg in a more personal way than just from her journalism work. She is, by all accounts, the tougher, feistier friend in the group so I am not surprised that she and RBG became lifelong friends. Totenberg uses that connection to move outward to other friends as well from her NPR colleagues to Supreme Court Justices. While there were plenty of juicy details related to the Court, including the Anita Hill case that is arguably Totenberg's biggest story, it was the personal reflection and insights into the lives of these women who were shattering the glass ceiling.
  witchyrichy | Oct 13, 2023 |
The title was clearly designed to sell books on the heels of #RBG's death. And, the last quarter of the book was truly devoted to her memory. But the first three-quarters were Totenberg's memoir combined with her friendships with Cokie Roberts and someone named Linda. Of course, in the small print on the front cover after the title, it was written "a memoir on the power of friendships." One of the downsides of reading an e-edition of a book is that the reader doesn't necessairly ever see the front of the book again--until it is finished. ( )
  kaulsu | Sep 11, 2023 |
I am a sucker for books about friendship, fiction or non-fiction, and this memoir really hit that spot. As a Brit I was not familiar with the author, but enjoyed getting to know her. I was better acquainted with one of her main subjects, Ruth Bader Ginsberg (or the notorious RBG as she became known).

Totenberg writes with warmth about almost all of her subjects including many she did not agree with, something that has become harder and harder to consolidate in recent years, and she reminds us as the book concludes that the Supreme Court is a very different place than the one RBG experienced.

Recording the wide variety of kinds of friendship, and the multiple facets any given friendship may shift-shape across a lifetime. ( )
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Biography & Autobiography. Family & Relationships. Nonfiction. HTML:Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth's legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated "on the basis of sex" to be unconstitutional. In a time when women were fired for becoming pregnant, often could not apply for credit cards or get a mortgage in their own names, Ruth patiently explained her argument. That call launched a remarkable, nearly fifty-year friendship.

Dinners with Ruth is an extraordinary account of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace. At the story's heart is one, special relationship: Ruth and Nina saw each other not only through personal joys, but also illness, loss, and widowhood. During the devastating illness and eventual death of Nina's first husband, Ruth drew her out of grief; twelve years later, Nina would reciprocate when Ruth's beloved husband died. They shared not only a love of opera, but also of shopping, as they instinctively understood that clothes were armor for women who wanted to be taken seriously in a workplace dominated by men. During Ruth's last year, they shared so many small dinners that Saturdays were "reserved for Ruth" in Nina's house.

Dinners with Ruth also weaves together compelling, personal portraits of other fascinating women and men from Nina's life, including her cherished NPR colleagues Cokie Roberts and Linda Wertheimer; her beloved husbands; her friendships with multiple Supreme Court Justices, including Lewis Powell, William Brennan, and Antonin Scalia, and Nina's own familyâ??her father, the legendary violinist Roman Totenberg, and her "best friends," her sisters. Inspiring and revelatory, Dinners with Ruth is a moving story of the joy and true meaning of friendsh

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