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 She\'s a hero for our time, and this is the biography for our time.--Walter Isaacson Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. -- The New York Times Book Review.
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. . . a richly detailed picture of O\'Connor\'s] personal and professional life . . . -- The Washington Post A] fascinating and revelatory biography .
Thomas gives O\'Connor the credit she deserves. . . .
First gives us a real sense of Sandra Day O\'Connor the human being. . . illuminating and eminently readable . . . poignant . . .
Praise for First Cinematic .
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.
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.
Diagnosed with cancer at fifty-eight, and caring for a husband with Alzheimer\'s, O\'Connor endured every difficulty with grit and poise.
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.
As a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals, she stood up to corrupt lawyers and humanized the law.
She became the first ever female majority leader of a state senate.
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.
When she graduated near the top of her law school class in 1952, no firm would even interview her.
At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University.
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 She\'s a hero for our time, and this is the biography for our time.--Walter Isaacson Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona
