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"Sandra Day O'Connor takes you behind the closed doors of the Supreme Court to reveal how Justice O'Connor helped craft landmark decisions on abortion, affirmative action, and a host of other critical issues. Joan Biskupic has broken new ground in reporting on O'Connor's life and historic role on the high court. This lively, fast-paced account will make people rethink how they view this extraordinary woman and her fellow justices. An indispensable read for anyone interested in politics, the law, and power as exercised by one of the most fascinating women of our time." -Andrea Mitchell
Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, became the axis on which the Supreme Court turned.She wascalled the most powerful woman in America, and it was often said that to gauge the direction of American law, one need look only to O'Connor's vote. Then, just one year short of a quarter century on the bench, she surprised her colleagues and the nation by announcing her retirement.
Drawing on information from once-private papers of the justices, hundreds of interviews with legal and political insiders, and the insight gained from nearly two decades of covering the Supreme Court, Joan Biskupic examines O'Connor's remarkable career, providing an in-depth account of her transformation from tentative jurist to confident architect of American law. The portrait that emerges is of a complex and multifaceted woman: lawyer, politician, legislator, and justice, as well as wife, mother, A-list society hostess, and competitive athlete. To all appearances,she wasthe polite lady in pearls, handbag on her arm. But in the back rooms of politics and the law,she wasa determined, focused strategist. O'Connor was the feminist who, rather than rebel against the male-dominated system, worked from within -- and succeeded.
As Biskupic demonstrates, Justice O'Connor became much more than a "first." During hertwenty-four-year tenure, she wrote the decisions on some of the most controversial social battles of our time. O'Connor's tie-breakingopinionson issues such as abortion rights, affirmative action, the death penalty, and religious freedom will have a lasting effect far into the future. O'Connor also cast one ofthe fivevotes that cut off the Florida recounts and allowed George W. Bush to take the White House in the 2000 contested presidential election. With an eye to the American people and a keen sense of public attitudes, she worked behind the scenes to shape the law and transform the legal standards by which future cases will be decided.
From O'Connor's isolated upbringing on the Lazy B ranch in Arizona through her time as a state legislator to herriseas a justice -- along the way confronting her own personal challenges and crises, including breast cancer -- Biskupic presents a vivid, astute depiction of the justice -- and of the woman beneath the black robe. In so doing,Sandra Day O'Connoralso provides an unprecedented look inside the exclusive, famously secretive High Court.
Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, became the axis on which the Supreme Court turned.She wascalled the most powerful woman in America, and it was often said that to gauge the direction of American law, one need look only to O'Connor's vote. Then, just one year short of a quarter century on the bench, she surprised her colleagues and the nation by announcing her retirement.
Drawing on information from once-private papers of the justices, hundreds of interviews with legal and political insiders, and the insight gained from nearly two decades of covering the Supreme Court, Joan Biskupic examines O'Connor's remarkable career, providing an in-depth account of her transformation from tentative jurist to confident architect of American law. The portrait that emerges is of a complex and multifaceted woman: lawyer, politician, legislator, and justice, as well as wife, mother, A-list society hostess, and competitive athlete. To all appearances,she wasthe polite lady in pearls, handbag on her arm. But in the back rooms of politics and the law,she wasa determined, focused strategist. O'Connor was the feminist who, rather than rebel against the male-dominated system, worked from within -- and succeeded.
As Biskupic demonstrates, Justice O'Connor became much more than a "first." During hertwenty-four-year tenure, she wrote the decisions on some of the most controversial social battles of our time. O'Connor's tie-breakingopinionson issues such as abortion rights, affirmative action, the death penalty, and religious freedom will have a lasting effect far into the future. O'Connor also cast one ofthe fivevotes that cut off the Florida recounts and allowed George W. Bush to take the White House in the 2000 contested presidential election. With an eye to the American people and a keen sense of public attitudes, she worked behind the scenes to shape the law and transform the legal standards by which future cases will be decided.
From O'Connor's isolated upbringing on the Lazy B ranch in Arizona through her time as a state legislator to herriseas a justice -- along the way confronting her own personal challenges and crises, including breast cancer -- Biskupic presents a vivid, astute depiction of the justice -- and of the woman beneath the black robe. In so doing,Sandra Day O'Connoralso provides an unprecedented look inside the exclusive, famously secretive High Court.
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