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“Every decade or so, an enterprising and intelligent outsider like Toobin can come along and shine a much-needed spotlight on the place…. The Nine is engaging, erudite, candid and accessible, often hard to put down. Toobin is a natural storyteller, and the stories he tells are gripping…. [He] writes about the court more fluidly and fluently than anyone.”
—David Margolick, The New York Times Book Review
“The Nine is the latest, and by far the best [book]…about the Supreme Court.”
—Nina Totenberg, NPR
“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
“[An] absorbing group profile…. [Toobin] deftly distills the issues and enlivens his narrative of the Court’s internal wranglings with sharp thumbnail sketches”
—Publishers Weekly
“A compelling look at the power and the politics behind the Supreme Court.”
—Booklist
“A major achievement, lucid and probing.”
—Bob Woodward
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2008
Copyright © 2007, 2008 by Jeffrey Toobin
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Doubleday, an imprint of The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2007.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
Toobin, Jeffrey.
The nine : inside the secret world of the Supreme Court / Jeffrey Toobin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. United States, Supreme Court. 2. Political questions and judicial power—United States. 3. Judicial review—United States. 4. Conservatism—United States. 5. Law—Political aspects. I. Title.
KF8748.T66 2007
347.73'26—dc22
2007020287
eISBN: 978-0-307-47289-2
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