The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · September 9, 2008
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A close look at the Supreme Court through power, process, and one author’s steady eye.
- Genres
- Courts & the Judiciary, Lawyers & Judges, Constitutional Law
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, September 9, 2008
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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.
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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.
Inside the Court
A close look at the Supreme Court through power, process, and one author’s steady eye.
Come here for
- inside-the-institution perspective
- career-and-power lens on the Court
Expect
- courtroom-adjacent, not court-reporting
- useful if you follow Toobin’s work
Where it sits
| Courts & the Judiciary | 70% |
|---|---|
| Lawyers & Judges | 38% |
| Constitutional Law | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Public Administration
- Constitutional Theory
- Courts & the Judiciary
- Authors
- Jeffrey Toobin
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- September 9, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Public Administration