Jeffrey Rosen’s Conversations with RBG is a biographical book on the life of the second female on the US Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The book takes the form of eight private and public interviews with Ginsburg and sheds light on her personal and professional life.
Each chapter of the book deals with a prominent theme in Ginsburg’s life and heavily focuses on the legal cases that influenced her life and career, including Roe v. Wade (1973), which had detrimental effects on Ginsburg’s personal and professional life, and almost cost her both her career and marriage. Ginsburg also comments on more recent concerns regarding the women’s rights movement, such as the #MeToo Movement and her presence in popular culture as the 'Notorious RBG'.
Julie Cohen of The Washington Post commented that “Conversations makes you feel like a student in the world's coolest law school seminar." Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times commented, "Imagine having a cup of coffee with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and chatting about law, the Supreme Court, marriage, family, music, wins and losses. If that seems unlikely to happen, Jeffrey Rosen's Conversations with RBG is the best possible substitute."
