I have read a number of biographical-style books about Justice O'Connor including her autobiographical book of her early years on the Lazy B ranch which was coauthored by her brother Alan. Of course there are similarities within all of these books because they all describe the events of her life. Even this latest book had to discuss some of her early years since her life as a hard worker on the family ranch molded her life, her decisions, her outlook even through the final years of her life on the Supreme Court.

In the early portions of this book, I feared that the biography would take precedence throughout the book. This book, however was about something far more than the life of Sandra Day O'Connor . The book did center on Justice O'Conner, but it also opened to me the nature of the job of Supreme Court Justice and how the court operates on a day to day basis. The court is truly a set of nine separate law firms in which the work of the court is carried out by each of those firms (including the Justice as well as the team of legal clerks) in each of these "firms". There is a great effort to do the work of the court individually until the time comes for the opinion of each Justice-team to be reviewed by the whole and a decision of the court is formed.

This is a most interesting book