Binding: Kindle Edition
Format: Kindle Book
ASIN: B000UZNRBO
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Release Date: 2007-09-18
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Editorial Reviews
Book 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.
Customer Reviews
fantastic by C. Read
For those passionate about the supreme court, Tobin’s book is a great read. Well laid out for the common reader and picks up at an intersting itme in the court’s history. VERY good read.
Pulp non-fiction by R. E. Kennedy
I was hoping for an update to “The Brethren” - what a disappointment! Toobin would have us believe that ideology and personality control virtually all Supreme Court decisions. The subtext is that there is a great conservative conspiracy. Much more fair and balanced is “Supreme Conflict” by Jan Crawford Greenburg. Toobin suggests that Justice O’Conner was more concerned with polling data than reasoned analysis (except, of course, for Stenberg v. Carhart, when she was “played” by Justice Breyer). The personal lives and opinions of the justices are interesting and even insightful. To think decisions are made in a vacuum is naïve. But to propose that ideology is the only consideration is shallow, even insulting. The internal inconsistencies and unsupported conclusions in this book are too many to mention. I confess, however, that Toobin has a good writing style, but so does John Grisham. They are equally instructive, but Grisham is more entertaining.
Another Page Turner from an Outstanding Writer by Stephen T. Conway
Every one of Jeffery Toobin’s books have been a “keeper” and this one is no exception. Toobin is an elegant writer who knows how to craft a story that defies you to put down the book. I always hate to reach the end, but always look forward to the next book. I have always enjoyed overall histories of the Court and the biographies of individual justices, and thought I knew most of what there was to know of these men and women. I should have known Jeff Toobin would reintroduce me to these important people in our lives and provide insights that let us know them and their motivations better. Toobin is incredibly gifted and his books are a treasure. Read this yourself, share it with others, buy it as a gift. It will show your good taste and its possession will educate, entertain and illuminate. It is one of those few books that I would take and stand in line to have signed. If it isn’t clear, I really loved this book.
Should Supreme Court justices be lifetime appointees? by R. J. McCabe
Overall this was a informative book. As most reviews here will attest, the author is plainly a liberal, but so what.
The essence of the book is that it describes how the Constitution is intrepreted according to the political leanings of the members of the court. The “law of the land” is in the hands of lifetime appointees to the highest court.
Regardless of who the President is and who controls Congress, the lifespans of the Supreme Court justices (or sometimes the health of their spouses) can determine the make-up of the court at any given time.
Should our rights be dictated by a series of 5-4 decisions by 9 justices who typically rule according to their political beliefs? Is THAT what the founding fathers intended?
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