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First : Sandra Day O'Connor / Evan Thomas.
Van Pelt Library KF8745.O25 T46 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Evan, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-2023.
- O'Connor, Sandra Day.
- United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Women judges--United States--Biography.
- Women judges.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2019]
- 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.
- 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
- Civil religion
- Bush v. Gore
- Affirmative action
- End game
- Labor of love.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-447) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780399589287
- 0399589287
- OCLC:
- 1040204757
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