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Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction
Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal
The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court
In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after…
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1 author picked Shortlisted as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book had a big wow factor for me, revealing the many—many—women who were considered for a US Supreme Court nomination long before the first, Sandra Day O’Connor.
The discoveries were eye-opening from the moment I first heard these two women scholars present their initial research at a conference. The authors dug deep into the archives and newspapers to recover the evidence of the multiple women considered for the Court by multiple presidents.
I enjoyed reading short biographies of each of these first ten women—so much so that the introduction of Florence Allen as the first nominee led me to…
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