About this title: Based on exclusive interviews with the Supreme Court Justices themselves and other insiders, "The Nine "is a timely and provocative state of the union about Americas most elite legal institution. As a CNN senior legal analyst, "New Yorker" staff writer, and bestselling author, no one is more superbly qualified on this topic than Jeffrey Toobin.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2007-09-18
ISBN-13:9780385516402ISBN:0385516401
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385516402ISBN:0385516401
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2008-09-09
ISBN-13:9781400096794ISBN:1400096790
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Description: Toobin, Jeffrey., Doubleday (Random House), 2007, c2007, later printing, boards & cloth (hard cover), fine with fine dj, 369 pp with notes, bibliography & index, full color photographic illus., tall 8vo, ISBN: 9780385516402, 'Reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land' read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385516402ISBN:0385516401
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"Interesting survey of the modern supreme court's history and personalities. The author pretends to write balanced even handed biographical sketches of a number of supreme court justices during the Bush years. He has a hard time veiling his distaste for conservative ideology while praising "moderate" justices like O'Conner for her "diplomatic" and "pragmatic" judicial view. He seems to spend by far more time on her than all the others combined. He believes that she was the most influential justice of the last 20 years and voted according to the "pulse of the nation" with the zeal of a politician. The author's favoritism would not particularly bother me were he to remain consistent for his reasons of preferences. However, he harshly criticizes conservative justices for ideological reasons and fails to mention Stevens and Ginsburg on the same grounds...that is to allow ideology to inform a justice's vote much more than other more legally justifiable factors. His neglect reveals his preconceived biases which motivate him to search for more errors with the "conservative" justices.
However, the bias tone only mildly distracts from Toobin's otherwise terrific insight. As a matter of fact his criticism seems merited. The problem is that it wasn't applied with the same zeal to the opposing ideology. Toobin seems to prefer O'Conner's "splitting the difference" approach over Scalia's antagonistic dissent. His conclusion even tries to reconcile the conservative justices' ideologically driven decisions as a necessary part of the democratic process as if he wouldn't have it any other way. After having read 300 pages of mildly panicked criticism of ideologically motivated decisions his conclusion was, admittedly, a very unpredictable reconciliation. I suppose its fitting...his thought process was as cryptic as O'Conner's (which explains his admiration).
The book in many ways was incredibly informative. Its a terrific introduction to the court and who the justices are. The book's merit is mostly in the consolidated description of each justice's judicial philosophy. He also gives an excellent perspective of how justices influence their colleagues. Even though, I spend much of my review rolling my eyes at Toobin's facade of objectivity, I recommend this book for its summary of modern cases, condensed biographies of each justice, insight into motivations of justices, and judicial philosophies informing the court's decisions."
"A fascinating, readable account of the Supreme Court and its inner workings. Profiles of the justices and accounts of cases dealing with affirmative action, abortion, gay rights, separation of church and state, and Bush vs. Gore. Toobin is a staff writer for the New Yorker and legal analyst for CNN. Especially interesting re. influence of Federalist Society and the radical right wing of the Republican party."
"This book is a pleasant read from beginning to end. The writing is first rate. Background information is thorough and makes the "public" story completely accessible. Seeing the author on C-Span is what intrigued and motivated me to buy the book. It was a fine way to spend a weekend."
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