Free shipping on orders over $99
The Nine

The Nine

Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

by Jeffrey Toobin
Hardback
Publication Date: 18/09/2007

Share This Book:

 

Bestselling 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.

ISBN:
9780385516402
9780385516402
Category:
Law
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
18-09-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
241.3x165.1x33.02mm
Weight:
0.62kg
Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin is the New York Times bestselling author of American Heiress, The Oath, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy, The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, and Opening Arguments.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he lives with his family in New York.

Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available

Reviews

Be the first to review The Nine.