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)

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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