First: Sandra Day O'Connor

"Author Evan Thomas breaks new ground with First. With extraordinary access to the justice, her papers, her personal journals – and even 20 years of her husband’s diary – the book is, in a sense, an authorized biography. But it is considerably more. It is an unvarnished and psychologically intuitive look at the nation’s first female Supreme Court justice and some of her contradictory characteristics. First is unlike every other volume written about Sandra Day O’Connor – even the books the justice wrote about herself."