Nina Totenberg's new memoir, 'Dinners with Ruth,' takes readers on a jaunt through her captivating life and career; her joys and sorrows — and the history of women in the workplace.
, formed a formidable reporting triumvirate. They breached a man's world in a time when it was not the norm to become friends with fellow women at work. But they did; they needed each other both personally and professionally.
A foodie acquainted with great home cooks — many of them men — Totenberg attends and gives parties, lunches, and dinners with anyone who's anyone in the nation's capital. Her star-studded social life is germane to the way she transacts business, and she partakes gleefully. As she namedrops her way through the politically well-connected and influential, Totenberg brings the charm and self-deprecation to keep us turning pages.
Totenberg"met" Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1971, when Ginsburg was a Rutgers law professor who had just authored the ACLU brief arguing that women were entitled to the same equal protection guarantees as men under the 14th Amendment. This winning argument,"which may seem obvious today," was anything but. Totenberg phoned to ask Ginsburg to explain her legal theory, and Ginsburg spent an hour walking Totenberg through the intricate framework of her argument.
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