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First - Sandra Day O'Connor (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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First - Sandra Day O'Connor (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The intimate, inspiring, and
authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first
female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and
first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives--by the New York
Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. "She's a hero for our time,
and this is the biography for our time."--Walter Isaacson She was
born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona.
At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her
sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of
her law school class in 1952, no firm would even interview her. But
Sandra Day O'Connor's story is that of a woman who repeatedly
shattered glass ceilings--doing so with a blend of grace, wisdom,
humor, understatement, and cowgirl toughness. She became the first
ever female majority leader of a state senate. As a judge on the
Arizona Court of Appeals, she stood up to corrupt lawyers and
humanized the law. When she arrived at the United States Supreme
Court, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, she began a
quarter-century tenure on the Court, hearing cases that ultimately
shaped American law. Diagnosed with cancer at fifty-eight, and
caring for a husband with Alzheimer's, O'Connor endured every
difficulty with grit and poise. Women and men who want to be
leaders and be first in their own lives--who want to learn when to
walk away and when to stand their ground--will be inspired by
O'Connor's example. This is a remarkably vivid and personal
portrait of a woman who loved her family, who believed in serving
her country, and who, when she became the most powerful woman in
America, built a bridge forward for all women. Praise 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 Post "[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 Times Book Review
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