Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman, 390 pages.

Informative, interesting, and convincing in showing how important both justices have been. A really good book about an important topic in the shaping of the legal landscape of modern America.
O"Connor always told the story of how, after graduating from Stanford Law school, where she had served as editor of the law review, the only job she was offered was as a legal secretary at a large California firm. She politely declined.
Likewise, Ruth Bader Ginsburg liked to tell the story of how as a student at Harvard Law she and the other woman students had to attend a dinner with faculty and justify taking the place of a man who could have enrolled in the school.
O'Connor found a place in Arizona politics, first as an assistant States Attorney, then as a State Senator, and then Majority Leader in the State Senate. In 1981, Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female Supreme Court Justice.
Ginsburg taught law at Rutgers, then became the head of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project. As the lead attorney for the WRP, she argued several pivotal cases before the Supreme court, and was then appointed to the federal bench in 1981. Bill Clinton, after considering other candidates, appointed Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in 1993. Hirshman makes all this and more compelling and readable.
A great read for those who like legal history, women's issues, civil rights, or just good biographies.