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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O’Connor, America’s first feminine Supreme Court docket justice, drawing on unique interviews and first-time entry to Justice O’Connor’s archives
“She’s a hero for our time, and this is the biography for our time.”—Walter Isaacson
Finalist for the Los Angeles Instances Guide Prize • Named One of many Greatest Books of the 12 months by NPR and The Washington Put up
She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when ladies had been anticipated to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford College. When she graduated close to the highest of her regulation faculty class in 1952, no agency would even interview her. However Sandra Day O’Connor’s story is that of a lady who repeatedly shattered glass ceilings—doing so with a mix of grace, knowledge, humor, understatement, and cowgirl toughness.
She turned the primary ever feminine majority chief of a state senate. As a decide on the Arizona Court docket of Appeals, she stood as much as corrupt legal professionals and humanized the regulation. When she arrived at the US Supreme Court docket, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, she started a quarter-century tenure on the Court docket, listening to instances that in the end formed American regulation. Identified with most cancers at fifty-eight, and caring for a husband with Alzheimer’s, O’Connor endured each issue with grit and poise.
Men and women who wish to be leaders and be first in their very own lives—who wish to study when to stroll away and when to face their floor—can be impressed by O’Connor’s instance. This can be a remarkably vivid and private portrait of a lady who cherished her household, who believed in serving her nation, and who, when she turned essentially the most highly effective girl in America, constructed a bridge ahead for all ladies.
Reward for First
“Cinematic . . . poignant . . . illuminating and eminently readable . . . First gives us a real sense of Sandra Day O’Connor the human being. . . . Thomas gives O’Connor the credit she deserves.”—The Washington Put up
“[A] fascinating and revelatory biography . . . a richly detailed picture of [O’Connor’s] personal and professional life . . . Evan Thomas’s book is not just a biography of a remarkable woman, but an elegy for a worldview that, in law as well as politics, has disappeared from the nation’s main stages.”—The New York Instances Guide Assessment
Writer : Random Home; First Version (March 19, 2019)
Language : English
Hardcover : 496 pages
ISBN-10 : 0399589287
ISBN-13 : 978-0399589287
Merchandise Weight : 1.85 kilos
Dimensions : 6.55 x 1.48 x 9.52 inches
