Dahlia Lithwick
Author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
About the Author
Dahlia Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate, where she has written for the "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999. Her writing has also appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and she has been a show more frequent guest on the NPR program Day to Day. Ms. Lithwick was awarded the Online News Association's award for online commentary in 2001. show less
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Works by Dahlia Lithwick
Associated Works
What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013) — Contributor — 106 copies, 19 reviews
Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women (2020) — Contributor — 82 copies, 2 reviews
Backstabbers, Crazed Geniuses, and Animals We Hate: The Writers of Slate's "Assessment" Column Tell It Like It Is (2006) — Contributor — 20 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Lithwick, Dahlia
- Legal name
- Lithwick, Dahlia
- Birthdate
- c. 1978
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Yale University
Stanford University - Occupations
- lawyer
journalist - Organizations
- Slate
Newsweek - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Associated Place (for map)
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Reviews
TW/CW: Sexual assault, sexual harassment, racism, homophobia, misogyny
RATING: 4/5
REVIEW: Lady Justice is the story of women lawyers during the Trump years who fought and defeated some of Trump’s most disgusting policies. From the ‘Muslim ban’ in 2017 to the attempt to add racist and xenophobic questions to the 2020 census, this book documents the women who gave their all to try to keep the country from backsliding as far as it could have.
Although looking back at a fraught and traumatic show more time, this book manages to be hopeful. The women who fought and succeeded not only give the reader something to hold onto but ways in which the reader themselves can attempt to make things better. Lithwick’s story telling is excellent, and her own involvement with many of these issues brings it closer to home. At the intersection of feminism and politics, this book is powerful, and important.
I have read many depressing books about the Trump era, and this is one that didn’t have me feeling lost and hopeless by the end. I recommend this book to all interested in politics and feminism. show less
RATING: 4/5
REVIEW: Lady Justice is the story of women lawyers during the Trump years who fought and defeated some of Trump’s most disgusting policies. From the ‘Muslim ban’ in 2017 to the attempt to add racist and xenophobic questions to the 2020 census, this book documents the women who gave their all to try to keep the country from backsliding as far as it could have.
Although looking back at a fraught and traumatic show more time, this book manages to be hopeful. The women who fought and succeeded not only give the reader something to hold onto but ways in which the reader themselves can attempt to make things better. Lithwick’s story telling is excellent, and her own involvement with many of these issues brings it closer to home. At the intersection of feminism and politics, this book is powerful, and important.
I have read many depressing books about the Trump era, and this is one that didn’t have me feeling lost and hopeless by the end. I recommend this book to all interested in politics and feminism. show less
I cannot recommend this book enough. If you are concerned about the course our nation is on, this book is a map to creating real and lasting change; change that improves the lives of marginalized groups, specifically the most vulnerable amongst us. If you REALLY are a follower of Christ, this is how you follow the command “as you do unto the least of these, you have done unto me”. Woman can and should be at the forefront of effecting the needed changes and the women highlighted in this show more book, these women of color, are the leaders we need to emulate. show less
Yes, women make a difference. One of my grandkids asked, while I was reading this, who won? Trump definitely lost.
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