Conversations with RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

By: Jeffrey Rosen

Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Suzanne Toren

"The audiobook version includes recorded conversations between the two from the 1990s to the present, delivering a compelling informal profile. As a permanent record of Ginsburg’s voice and fighting spirit, it’s an inspiring listen." — Paste

This program includes recorded conversations between Jeffrey Rosen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In this audiobook, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.

Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique audiobook, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with us the justice’s observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through. The affection they have for each other as friends is apparent in their banter and in their shared love for the Constitution and for opera.

With Justice Ginsburg’s approval, Rosen has collected her wisdom from their many conversations in which she discusses the future of the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade, her favorite dissents, the cases she would most like to see overruled, the #MeToo movement, how to be a good listener, how to lead a productive and compassionate life. These frank exchanges illuminate the steely determination, self-mastery, and wit that have inspired women and men of all ages to embrace the “Notorious RBG.”

Whatever the topic, Justice Ginsburg always has something interesting—and often surprising—to say. And while few of us will ever have the opportunity to chat with her face-to-face, Jeffrey Rosen brings us by her side as never before. Conversations with RBG is a deeply felt portrait of an American hero.

Not quite enough material for a while book

But what was here was delightful. There seemed to be a bit of repetition within the book itself, or perhaps that was my Audible recording. Still, I enjoyed it and would recommend It with that caveat.

RBG

I loved this conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It was refreshing to hear opinions on various constitutional cases and her overall belief on equality for women, but also that of men, as they must carry on in her footsteps.

I hope more young people will take heart to her message to th

The Amazing RBG

RBG is a remarkable woman, and it's amazing to learn how much of an impact she had on furthering race and gender equality. The content and recorded conversations are organized into topical chapters. There are some repetition and references to law cases that needed more background to fully understand the impact of the ruling. It would also be useful to know all of the Supreme Court justices that served since the 1990s to better follow the shift in case rulings and RBG's influence on the court.

Women's history

The details behind her stances reveal much about her orientation when faced with a case before the Supreme Court.

An amazing learning experience!

This presentation was moving, emotional, and educational in profound ways. Her mechanism of turning an issue upside down to help our country see things differently is, I think, one of RBG’s hallmarks.

I call it “turning the Rubix Cube over”. This is not even my concept. It is Stephen King’s. (On Writing) I think these two people would have been good friends.