Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812966732 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 317 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her brother Alan spent their youth, a time they recall in this affectionate joint memoir. "We belonged to the Lazy B, and it belonged to each of us," write O'Connor and Day. --Gregory McNamee. Deep in the granite hills of eastern Arizona in 1880, H.C. They also learned a system of values that "was simple and unsophisticated and the product of necessity," one that has followed them into the larger world. "We thought it would always be there." Weathering events from the Great Depression to cyc
Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today—the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America. In this illuminating and unusual book, Sandra Day O’Connor tells, with her brother, Alan, the story of the Day family, and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B ranch in Arizona.Laced throughout these stories about three generations of the Day
"A Very Impressive Lady!" according to Loyd Eskildson. "Lazy B," like the title implies, is the story of Sandra Day O'Connor and her younger brother growing up on a ranch in south-eastern Arizona. They grew up in an isolated environment that mandated self-reliance and initiative. Sandra received much of her formal education through riding the train to El Paso to stay with her maternal grandparents while attending a local girls' school. Her father had wanted to attend Stanford but the responsibilities of taking over the family ranch prevented that. Sandra O'Connor was able to achieve that for him, where she excelled academically, was then inspired by one of her instru. This was written as it should have been actually growing This was written as it should have been actually growing up on working cattle ranch I know becuase I did also. Karen J. Willard said Excellent. Excellent book. Easy to read. Could be read one week, put down and gotten back into a month later. Interesting.