Sisters In Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor And Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went To The Supreme Court And Changed The World

"The title tells all: Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World. Linda Hirshman’s joint biography of the first and second women to serve on the nation’s highest court is a gossipy, funny, sometimes infuriating and moving tale of two women so similar and yet so different. O’Connor, a lifelong Republican, was raised on a Western ranch and cut her political teeth as majority leader of the Arizona Senate. Ginsburg was born and bred in Brooklyn, the daughter of a Russian Jewish immigrant, and became a professor and litigator. But as different as their backgrounds were, and even their approaches to judging, when it came to women’s rights, O’Connor and Ginsburg were allies. They began their careers at a time when women could be denied jobs, credit, even a place on a jury. But they always had an amazing self-confidence, believing that they could be lawyers and leaders."