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☆ 5 Books to Read About Sandra Day O’Connor
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Wilson Wong | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Readers see a justice who was aware of the significance of her position, and who knew what she wanted her legacy to be. “For anyone interested in the court, women’s history or both, the story of Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, their separate routes to the Supreme Court and what they accomplished during the more than 12 years they spent together is irresistible,” Greenhouse wrote in her review. “Did Justices O’Connor and Ginsburg really change the world? As David Margolick wrote in the Book Review, “O’Connor was clearly Toobin’s most important source. She’s also — readers can decide if it’s coincidental — his hero: the justice, he argues, who through her pragmatic, seat-of-the-pants jurisprudence single-handedly kept the court close to the American mainstream, particularly on matters like reproductive freedom and affirmative action.” (2007)

Persons: Jeffrey Toobin, ‘, ’ ”, Sandra Day O’Connor, Alan Day O’Connor, Linda Greenhouse, Sandra Day, prim, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Linda Hirshman, O’Connor, Ginsburg, ” Greenhouse, “, Sandra Day O’Connor O’Connor, Michiko Kakutani, ’, William Rehnquist, David Margolick, “ O’Connor Organizations: Phoenix Junior League, United States Supreme, Supreme, New Yorker, CNN Locations: American, Arizona, New Mexico, States

☆ That Noise? The Rich Neighbors Digging a Basement Pool in Their $100 Million Brownstone
▼ + stars: | 2019-04-05 | by ( David Margolick | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] In the middle of West 69th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, behind some scaffolding and a green wooden wall, stand a few precarious inches of facade. A few years from now, this remnant will be grafted onto a mansion that may well cost $100 million by the time it’s finally finished. Manhattan has countless monuments to outrageous wealth, most recently and glaringly the $238 million penthouse that the hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin just bought at 220 Central Park South. Lacking famous owners, a prestige address, a brand-name architect or coverage in tabloid real estate blotters, 48-50 West 69th Street has thus far been a study in inconspicuous consumption.

Persons: Potemkin, it’s, Rosh Hashana, Martin Luther, Ken Griffin Organizations: Park West, Columbus Locations: York, Manhattan

☆ NOT GUILTY: THE OVERVIEW;Jury Clears Simpson in Double Murder; Spellbound Nation Divides on Verdict
▼ + stars: | 1995-10-04 | by ( David Margolick | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The verdict, coming 16 months after Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman were slashed to death in the front yard of Mrs. Simpson's condominium and after 9 months of what often seemed like interminable testimony, sidebars and high-priced legal bickering, was reached in the end with breathtaking speed. When it was read, much of the nation, President Clinton included, stopped work to listen to it. And with the Simpson verdict, as with the Simpson case, the nation once more divided -- largely along racial lines. So, too, did defense lawyers, with the onetime chief of Mr. Simpson's legal team, Robert L. Shapiro, criticizing his successor. "Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck," Mr. Shapiro told Barbara Walters tonight in an interview on an ABC News special.

Persons: Orenthal James Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald L, Goldman, Clinton, Simpson, Robert L, Shapiro, Mr, Barbara Walters Organizations: ABC

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