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Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Doubleday
September 2007
On Sale: September 18, 2007
384 pages
ISBN: 0385516401
EAN: 9780385516402
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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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