biography i did justice sandra day o connor who was such a pioneering individual, who was such a natural as a subject. but he s, in some ways, he s one of the nine, he s a conservative certainly, he s outspoken, but why focus so much on him? but his, he is, he is an original. i mean, you know firsthand. you ve been following him and being close to him for decades. he s, he s so distintive in his style, you know, the opera viewing with ruth bader ginsburg, duck hunting with dick cheney, but his approach to the law and his approach to life is such a wide embrace that he is distinctive among his black-robed peers. .. guest: there were times when i would go to watch him speak and he would stand up and i would start to let because he has this showman s movement about him, that s both operatic but also, go. just the way justice scalia even composes his opinion, he said he sits on his computer, he puts on his classical music and he starts to conduct as if he is doing a symphony. s
. . that s an interesting question because you want the book to reflect the subject and when you re dealing with you also want a title that will urge people to pick it up and read it, and at first my publisher and editor and i were thinking should we call scalia, he is well-known enough you could probably get away with that but then we felt we wanted to promote something larger because he is so much larger and american original as you know is a pawn in some ways and first it reflects his italian-american street, first generation story which is part of this book about the work of original is tied to his legal approach of our ritualism and which he looks back of the 18th-century drafters of the constitution wanted in the document and how it should be interpreted today. so, we thought that that was actually the committee i have to say american original and reflects him as an original, as a first-generation american and also a proponent of the original is some legal of fury. ho