Women of the Supreme Court
This week Alice and Kim talk about some excellent nonfiction featuring women of the Supreme Court.
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Nonfiction in the News
2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
Ron Charles at the Washington Post: The 2020 National Book Awards finalists are a strikingly fresh group [Washington Post]
New Nonfiction
What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
White Reconstruction : Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide by Dylan Rodríguez
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh
The Ghost Road : Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Quick mentions:
- White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
- Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House by Elizabeth Mitchell
Women of the Supreme Court
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnuk
Reading Now
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Conclusion
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