First: Sandra Day O'Connor [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Thomas, Evan

Published by Random House, New York, 2019

About this Item

As new condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Evan Thomas; Author Dedication; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration List and Credits; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of both black-and-white and color photographic plates, various random black-and-white photographs interspersed throughout the volume, a black-and-white photographic frontispiece, and color photographic front and rear endpapers. "A great storyteller has found his greatest subject in traliblazer Sandra Day O'Connor. Evan Thomas has written one of the most insightful and thoroughly captivating biographies I have ever read: A clear and compelling illumination of Sandra Day O'Connor's unique voice and place in American history is told through her remarkable life's journey from a rancher's daughter to the first woman appointed to the highest court in the land." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin., Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "A vivid, humane, and inspiring portrait of an extraordinary woman and how she both reflected and shaped an era." -- Drew Faust, president emerita, Harvard University. "In Evan Thomas's brilliant and compelling book, we are given an intimate and gripping account of a pioneering American woman successfully seeking to thrive in what had been an all-male world. Written with fluidity and grace, Thomas's book is required reading for anyone interested in the role of women in America . A landmark achievement about an American original." -- Hon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, based on exclusive interviews and access to her Supreme Court archives -- by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. 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 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 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 Alzheimer's, O'Connor endured every difficulty with grit and poise. Women and men today will be inspired by O'Connor's example, in how to be first in your own life, how to know when to fight and when to walk away. This is a remarkably vivid and personal portrait of a woman who loved her family and believed in serving her country, and who, when she became the most powerful woman in America, built a bridge forward for other women to follow." -- from the inner front jacket flap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First: Sandra Day O'Connor [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Carr, Anna Bauer (jacket design); Evans, Michael Arthur Worden (jacket front photograph)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New