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- Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday
- On Sale: September 18, 2007
- Price: $32.50
- ISBN: 978-0-385-51640-2 (0-385-51640-1)
about this book
Winner, The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
In The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin analyzes the most important legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. 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 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.
"A major achievement, lucid and probing."
—Bob Woodward, co-author of The Brethren
"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
