{"id":8025,"date":"2025-03-20T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T11:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2025-03-22T08:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:01:17","slug":"dinners-with-ruth-a-memoir-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/03\/dinners-with-ruth-a-memoir-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Nina Totenberg \u2013 <\/b><b><i>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/i><\/b><b>, 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Public Radio correspondent Nina Totenberg chronicles her nearly 50-year friendship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Their friendship began when Totenberg was a young journalist covering the Supreme Court<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Ginsburg was a rising legal scholar. They quickly discovered a shared passion for social justice and women&#8217;s rights. They supported each other through personal and professional challenges and shared countless meals, laughter and heartfelt conversations. This biography shows Ginsburg beyond the public figure, revealing her as a complex, witty and deeply caring individual, who worked\u2014and worked out\u2014into her 80s. The book also explores the challenges and triumphs of Totenberg&#8217;s career. Totenberg delves into the families, colleagues and friend<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s (you\u2019ll recognize many of them)<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who uplifted her<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> both personally and professionally. You won\u2019t want to miss this heartfelt homage to a lifelong bond that will inspire and remind you of the profound impact of human connection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Public Radio correspondent Nina Totenberg chronicles her nearly 50-year friendship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/03\/dinners-with-ruth-a-memoir-of-friendship\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,61,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-memoirs","category-nonfiction"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8028,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions\/8028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}