Judi Beaumont, Vice President of sponsor Northern Trust, visits with biographer Joan Biskupic following Biskupic’s talk on Sandra Day O’Connor at the first Literary Society meeting of the season.
"During her early tenure on the Supreme Court, O’Connor was more Donna Reed than Wonder Woman.” So spoke Joan Biskupic at the Indian River Literary Society’s first author luncheon of the season, held in October at the Orchid Island Beach Club.
Biskupic’s biography of the first woman Supreme Court justice is a well-documented, factual yet fascinating account of Sandra Day O’Connor. From her earliest years on the family ranch until her retirement from the Supreme Court, the reader is taken on an amazing journey. And that is not all. In the process, the author shows us the intricacies of the Supreme Court and how its justices, for over 200 years, have shaped the course of our nation.
It is inconceivable that any citizen of this country who lived in the last quarter of the 20th century would not know of O’Connor and the historical significance of her appointment to the Supreme Court. But her biographer is no slouch either.
Read the entire article in the January 2007 issue
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