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Audiobooks Narrated by Linda Lavin
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993—a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture.
My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on law and lawyers in opera, and on the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This book contains a sampling, selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams. Justice Ginsburg has written an Introduction to the book, and Hartnett and Williams introduce each chapter, giving biographical context and quotes gleaned from hundreds of interviews they have conducted. This is a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America’s most influential women.
This audiobook features archival original recordings of Justice Ginsburg’s speeches and bench announcements.
Addie Baum is a Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant Jewish parents who live a very modest life entrenched in Roxbury's Jewish community. Addie's intelligence and curiosity lead her to a more modern path. Addie wants to finish high school and to go to college. She wants a career, she wants to find true love. She wants to escape the confines of her family. And she does.
Boston Girl begins in 1985 when Addie Baum's 22 -year old Granddaughter asks about Addie's childhood. Starting her story in 1915, the year she began to question her role in the world -- Addie relates the story of her life. From the one-room apartment in Boston's West End she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library groups for girls at the Salem Street Settlement where Addie finds refuge after high school and on Saturdays. To Rockport Lodge in a seaside town 40 miles north of Boston where Addie and other immigrant girls from the Settlement go for a vacation in the summers and make friendships that will last a lifetime and where they learn about art, boys, and sports. From her brother-in-law's shirt factory where she works as a secretary, to the offices of the Transcipt, one of Boston's evening newspapers -- where she begins as a secretary typing and answering phones and ends up writing a column about events "Seen and Heard" around Boston. From a first boyfriend to failed relationships, to the "real thing." Addie's story is told against the backdrop of World War I, the flu epidemic, the ideas of Margaret Sanger, reforms in child labor laws, the growth of Reformed Judaism in America, and how the role of women was changed by all of this.
Written with the same attention to detail and emotional impact that made Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in the early 20th Century, and a window into the lives of all women seeking to understand the world around them.
