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Editorial ReviewBestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important--and secret--legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.
Just in time for the 2008 presidential election--where the future of the Court will be at stake--Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations.
Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Court through personalities--from Anthony Kennedy's overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas's well-tended grievances against his critics to David Souter's odd nineteenth-century lifestyle. There is also, for the first time, the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Gore--and Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with George W. Bush, the president she helped place in office.
The Nine is the book bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin was born to write. A CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer, no one is more superbly qualified to profile the nine justices.
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- Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
- Great for Law Students
I happen to pick up Jeffrey Toobin's The Nine just after completing Constitutional Law in law school. What a great companion this book was to the class. The book explores the stories behind many of the major cases learned in law school. It not succinctly summarizes the law, but far more interesting is the insights it gives to the justices' individual motivations and their efforts to bring other justices on to their opinions. The conventional view of the court is that it is apolitical and unconcerned with... more info
- good background knowledge. very quick read
This is one of the unusual book that I managed to finish reading in two days. The author provided good balance of theorectical legal discussion, justices' personality/background and Washington politics/gossips. The shortcoming of such quantity of information is that the content is only sufficient to entertain readers who don't have much basic knowledge of the Supreme Court, like me. (I tend to read the business or foreign section of newspaper, but skip news related to legal issues).
Potential reader... more info
- A very readable overview of the Rehnquist court
THE NINE is a very readable synopsis of the members and inner workings of The Supreme Court under Rehnquist's leadership. Each judge is examined in some detail with much of the focus falling on the star of this court, O'Connor. The overall scope of the book does not lends itself to an in depth examination of any particular judge or case; instead it's main function is to provide the reader with a concise breakdown of The Court's recent history and as such it serves its purpose well. For the reader with... more info
- It All Boils Down to Ideology
It is understandable why Mr. Toobin's "The Nine" received so many kudos and vaulted onto numerous book critics' top-ten list for the year. Like three of his earlier works pertaining to the OJ Simpson trial, President Clinton's impeachment fiasco and the 2000 Florida recount catastrophe, the author has produced a knowledgable and engrossing book about the Supreme Court. I have always been perplexed and discouraged about the near total indifference by many voters when it comes to a potential President's... more info
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