Books : The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
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by: Jeffrey Toobin
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 347.7326
EAN: 9780385516402
ISBN: 0385516401
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Sales Rank: 1414
Studio: Doubleday
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Product Description:
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.
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Rating:  - More of a gossip description of the justiices
I felt that this book took more of a gossip description of the justices--who likes eachother, who tried to set up eachother on dates, who hated eachother. That could have been fine as an addendum but I wanted more meat on the issues and how each jusitce came to form their opinion and their stand.
Rating: - Informative
If you've ever wanted to know what happens in the cloistered world of the Supreme Court, this book will give you a brief glimpse. It details not just the kinds of cases that the Supreme Court has heard over the last 30 years, but also what kind of people the Supreme Court Justices are and where they came from. Others have suggested there's a bias in this book, but I fail to see it. If the author spends a great deal of time talking about what conservatives were up to in filling the current nine ... Read More
Rating: - 3.5 out of 5
The Nine is an in-depth portrayal of the current Supreme Court. Not only does Toobin cover the personality quirks and politics of the individual justices and their relationships with each other over time, he also analyzes the development and the current state of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on key issues like abortion, gay rights, and affirmative action. Other than a few interesting bits of trivia, I didn't really learn anything new from The Nine, but I was entertained, and I think this book ... Read More
Rating: - Worthy Sequel to The Brethren
In The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin produces a worthy sequel to The Brethren. Covering roughly the period from 1987 to 2007, Mr. Toobin examines how the personalities of the individuals appointed to the court influence the outcome of decisions at the highest level.
In many respects, The Nine is the story of just two justices, Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy. One of the first stories in the book is how Justices Souter, O'Connor and Kennedy crafted a middle of the road compromise ... Read More
Rating: - a short review
A history of the last 20 or so years of supreme court justices, namely the justices of the rehnquist court, but the end does talk about the nominations of john roberts and alito. Its kind of bland. I thought it would be a little more exciting, considering it was a best seller. How much discussion on Roe v Wade, death penalty, and gay rights can someone actually read about without being bored to tears.
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