Notorious RBG The life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsberg (b. 1933) was -Columbia University's first female tenured professor; she published the first casebook on sex discrimination; she was the second woman to sit on the nation's highest court; and she was the first Supreme Court justice to officiate at a same-sex wedding. Ginsberg is iconic: she's a Halloween costume for all ages; her Cartoon Network alter ego, Wrath Hover Ginsbot, has been "appointed for life to kick your butt"; she's a recurring character on Saturday Night Live. Her "jabot with scalloped glass beads"-aka her dissent collar-is a feared weapon for justice. Her inspirational success on and off the bench-the diminutive octogenarian still does push-ups-inspired the Tumblr site Notorious R.B.G. (-notoriousrbg.tumblr.com), "a digital tribute" whose moniker nods admiringly to late rapper Notorious B.I.G., invoking both stark contrasts and surprising similarities between the two headliners. Knizhnik and -Carmon have seamlessly transferred digital to paper (fact-checked with RBG!) and going aural proves equally successful-albeit definitively different. While Andi Arndt reads RBG in all her fabulous notoriety, frequent references to downloadable enhanced visual materials (including RBG's annotated doodles!) can be distracting. -VERDICT That said, this work does justice to Notorious RBG. ["The authors successfully situate [Ginsberg's] work within a larger historical context, thereby illustrating her central role in advancing equal rights for all": LJ 11/15/15 starred review of the Dey Street: HarperCollins hc.]-Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.