First : Sandra Day O'Connor / Evan Thomas.
2019
KF8745.O25 T46 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
First : Sandra Day O'Connor / Evan Thomas.
Author
Thomas, Evan, 1951- author.
ISBN
9780399589287 (hardcover)
0399589287 (hardcover)
0399589287 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Random House, [2019]
Language
English
Description
xvi, 476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Call Number
KF8745.O25 T46 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
347.73/2634 B
Summary
"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 class at law school 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 State Court of Appeals, she stood up to corrupt lawyers and humanized the law. When she arrived at the Supreme Court, appointed by 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 today will be inspired by how to be first in your own life, how to know when to fight and when to walk away, through O'Connor's example."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-447) and index.
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Table of Contents
Lazy B
Stanford
The golden couple
Majority leader
Arizona judge
The President calls
Inside the marble palace
Scrutiny
FWOTSC
Cancer
A woman's role
Civic religion
Bush v. Gore
Affirmative action
End game
Labor of love.
Stanford
The golden couple
Majority leader
Arizona judge
The President calls
Inside the marble palace
Scrutiny
FWOTSC
Cancer
A woman's role
Civic religion
Bush v. Gore
Affirmative action
End game
Labor of love.