Jeffrey Toobin
Hardcover | Pages: 369 pages Rating: 4.09 | 15746 Users | 2124 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Nine |
| ISBN: | 0385516401 (ISBN13: 9780385516402) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2008), American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for Books (2008) |
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In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices and with a keen sense of the Court’s history and the trajectory of its future, Jeffrey Toobin creates in The Nine a riveting story of one of the most important forces in American life today.Specify Appertaining To Books The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
| Title | : | The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court |
| Author | : | Jeffrey Toobin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 369 pages |
| Published | : | November 23rd 2007 by Doubleday Books (first published August 23rd 2007) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Politics. History. Law |
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Ratings: 4.09 From 15746 Users | 2124 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Actual Rating: 4.5 ishI'm really questioning whether I should round to 4 or 5 stars, but since I don't tend to read (or, more importantly, enjoy) nonfiction books as much, I'm rounding up. For a book that could have easily been very dry, I found it to be really readable, while still very informative. I actually wish I'd read it earlier, before some of my law classes, 'cause I think having this context would have been really useful! My only qualm would be that it could get a bit repetitive atIts certainly not outside of the realm of possibility that I am deluded. Completely and utterly deluded. Nevertheless, I have always held the American judiciary in much greater esteem than either the executive or legislative branches of government for several reasonsbut most persuasive among them is my firm belief that the judiciary is the best situated to transcend workaday partisan politics.Sure, judges are appointed by partisan politicians for partisan reasons. Therefore, they are functions
I cannot believe I waited to read this book until now. I thought I knew what it was about and that I didn't need this brick in my building of knowledge. I was wrong. This book is exquisite. It is so well written and is such an interesting and important account of US law and politics over the last several decades. A few thoughts: 1. It is amazing how much certain peoples' insecurities and temperaments end up changing the course of history. I am not a believer in the "great man" (or woman) theory
Sadly not the trashy gossip fest I was in the mood for. I wanted either another hundred pages discussing the court's role in the political system and propounding a new theory of case analysis, or I wanted some juicy judicial sexploits. Sadly, I got neither. The "revelations" in this book are nothing new if you pay a little attention to the court Scalia and Ginsburg were besties, Thomas has a bizarre and alarming worldview, etc.Still, the lay reader would probably enjoy this as a portrait of
Toobin's book, as mentioned in some of the other reviews, is highly readable, captivating and contains very good summaries of many of the important Supreme Court cases of the last few decades. Perhaps as important is his ability to write about the Jurist's personalities and their judicial philosophy providing the reader with the thought processes that go to work behind the decision making. The inner workings and day to day activity of the Court was something I found quite interesting. The
This isn't The Brethren. That should be made clear from the start. Bob Woodward's book on the United State Supreme Court's 1969-75 terms is, in my mind, a classic. I've never read a better, more entertaining, more detailed book on the Supreme Court's inner workings. It also gives a glimpse of an interesting moment in legal history, as the progressive years of the Warren Court ended, and a gradual rightward shift began (despite, rather than because, of the incompetence of Warren Burger). Jeffrey
WELL. How I wish I'd had the foresight, at a much younger and more capable age, to consult some kind of career counselor! If only, if ONLY someone back then had the wisdom and charity to inform me of the existence of something called "constitutional law," and advised me to study hard, behave myself, keep my mouth shut, make influential friends, and avoid leaving a drunken trail of scribbled opinions about all my personal and political views as I careened helter-skelter along a haphazard career
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