Synopses & Reviews
In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important — and secret — legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices and with a keen sense of the Courts history and the trajectory of its future, Jeffrey Toobin creates in The Nine a riveting story of one of the most important forces in American life today.
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“Intelligent and even-handed....Toobin’s access to the Supremes and their secret little world is phenomenal.” Chicago Sun-Times
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“Every decade or so, an enterprising and intelligent outsider like Toobin can come along and shine a much needed spotlight on the place....The Nine is engaging, erudite, candid and accessible, often hard to put down. Toobin is a natural storyteller, and the stories he tells are gripping....[He] writes about the court more fluidly and fluently than anyone.” David Margolick, The New York Times Book Review
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“This is a remarkable, riveting book. So great are Toobin's narrative skills that both the justices and their inner world are brought vividly to life.” Doris Kearns Goodwin
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“[An] absorbing group profile....[Toobin] deftly distills the issues and enlivens his narrative of the Court's internal wranglings with sharp thumbnail sketches” Publishers Weekly
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“A major achievement, lucid and probing.” Bob Woodward
About the Author
Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker, senior legal analyst at CNN, and the authors of such best-sellers as Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President, and The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson.