Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships / Nina Totenberg.
Totenberg, Nina, author.
2022
PN1991.4.T658 A3 2022eb
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Title Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships / Nina Totenberg.
Author Totenberg, Nina, author.
ISBN 9781982188108 (electronic bk.)
1982188103 (electronic bk.)
9781982188085 (hardcover)
1982188081 (hardcover)
Published New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits.
Call Number PN1991.4.T658 A3 2022eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4402/8092
Summary Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her remarkable friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Four years before Nina Totenberg started working at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prize-winning 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 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 relationship: Ruth and Nina saw each other not only through personal joys, but also illness, loss, and widowhood. Ruth drew Nina out of grief during the devastating illness and eventual death of Nina's 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. Dinners with Ruth also weaves together 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 family--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 of friendship.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index.
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Prologue: Bouillabaisse for Ruth
The 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
Epilogue.

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