TOUGH JUSTICE

摘要

The yearbook for James Madison High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., predicted a member of the class of 1950 would end up on the U.S. Supreme Court-just not the right one. Joel Sheinbaum became a dentist; Ruth Bader, who later took her husband Marty Ginsburg's name, joined the high court. Notorious R.B.G., a biography of the justice, is stuffed with tongue-in-cheek anecdotes like that. Even better, the book, though slender, contains ample historical detail and enough carefully annotated legal material to serve as an ideal entry point for readers curious about Ginsburg but intimidated by the thought of heavy-duty constitutional analysis. And it's inspiring: Ginsburg has lived a classic American story of individual achievement in the service of a greater good.