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Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

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Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, became the axis on which the Supreme Court turned She was called 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 retirementDrawing on information from onceprivate 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 indepth 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