First: Sandra Day O'Connor

First: Sandra Day O'Connor

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day Oâ€™Connor, Americaâ€™s first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice Oâ€™Connorâ€™s archivesâ€”by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas.

â€œSheâ€™s a hero for our time, and this is the biography for our time.â€â€”Walter Isaacson

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR â€¢ The Washington Post

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 Oâ€™Connorâ€™s story is that of a woman who repeatedly shattered glass ceilingsâ€”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 Alzheimerâ€™s, Oâ€™Connor endured every difficulty with grit and poise.

Women and men who want to be leaders and be first in their own livesâ€”who want to learn when to walk away and when to stand their groundâ€”will be inspired by Oâ€™Connorâ€™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

â€œCinematic . . . poignant . . . illuminating and eminently readable . . . FirstÂ gives us a real sense of Sandra Day Oâ€™Connor the human being. . . . Thomas gives Oâ€™Connor the credit she deserves.â€â€”The Washington Post

â€œ[A] fascinating and revelatory biography . . . a richly detailed picture of [Oâ€™Connorâ€™s] personal and professional life . . . Evan Thomasâ€™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 nationâ€™s main stages.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	16-page colour photo insert; black and w
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2019-03-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399589287

First: Sandra Day O'Connor

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