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Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships / Nina Totenberg.

Totenberg, Nina, (author.).

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"Four years before Nina Totenberg started working at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prize-wining 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 Supereme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated 'on the bases of sex' to be unconstitutional. In a time when women were fired for becoming pregnant and often could not apply for credit cards or get a mortgage, Ruth patiently explained her argument. That call launched a 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 relationsip: Ruth and Nina saw each other through not only personal joys but also illness, loss, and widowhood. Ruth drew Nina out of grief during the devastating illness and eventual death of her first husband; twelve years later, Nina would reciprocate when Ruth's beloved husband died. They shared a love of opera and 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781982188085
  • ISBN: 1982188081
  • Physical Description: xiii, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Bouillabaisse for Ruth -- First stirrings of friendship -- Making friends and a few enemies -- Unexpected friends -- Friends and love -- Friends in need -- Friends of the court -- Friends and confidences -- Supreme friends -- Male friends -- Friends in joy -- Nourishing friendships -- Friendship and hardships -- Fame and friendship -- Friendship is a choice -- Losing friends -- Finding my father's long-lost friend -- Farewell to my friend.

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Totenberg, Nina > Friends and associates.
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020 > Friends and associates.
Radio broadcasters > United States > Biography.
Judges > United States > Biography.
Female friendship.
Women's friendships.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Biographies.

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