"Four years before Nina Totenberg started working at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prize-wining reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth's legal brief asking the supereme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated "on the bases of sex" to be unconstitutional. In a time...