Women of the Supreme Court - a podcast by Book Riot

This week Alice and Kim talk about some excellent nonfiction featuring women of the Supreme Court.

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2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize FinalistsRon Charles at the Washington Post: The 2020 National Book Awards finalists are a strikingly fresh group [Washington Post]

New NonfictionWhat 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 RodríguezShe 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. FletcherQuick mentions: 



White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby HamadLincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House by Elizabeth Mitchell 


Women of the Supreme CourtMy 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 HirshmanMy Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon&Shana Knizhnuk

Reading NowThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

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