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For some time now, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been having a moment. Books, documentaries, a major feature film, even a best-selling comic-book-cum-biography have celebrated the feminist litigator and second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court. Still, all this attention to No 2 implicitly raises the question of whatever happened to No 1.
Evan Thomas answers that question in his fascinating and revelatory biography, First: Sandra Day O’Connor. There are many parallels between the lives of RBG and SDO — early confrontations with discrimination, fierce work ethics, supportive and enlightened husbands — but there is one major distinction:
