Telling the Story of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

Authors

Susan Frelich Appleton, Washington University in St. Louis School of LawFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

2020

Publication Title

Washington University Journal of Law and Policy

Abstract

Appearing as part of the WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW and POLICY’s celebration of the sesquicentennial of the first women law students, this brief review critically examines FIRST: SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, a biography by Evan Thomas. The review follows two themes highlighted by the book, intimacy and gender, and finds the author's treatment of the latter especially problematic. (A shorter version of the review appeared under the title How One Glass Ceiling Was Broken, COMMON READER (Nov. 20, 2019).

Keywords

Gender, Supreme Court, Biography

Publication Citation

Susan Appleton, Telling the Story of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 62 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 5 (2020) (reviewing Evan Thomas’s, First: Sandra Day O’Connor (2019))

Repository Citation

Appleton, Susan Frelich, "Telling the Story of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor" (2020). Scholarship@WashULaw. 137.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/137