The Nine (64 page)

Grateful acknowledgment is given to the following for the photos in this book:

Jeffrey Toobin

THE NINE

Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at
The New Yorker
, senior legal analyst at CNN, and the author of such bestsellers as
Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
,
A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President
, and
The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson
. He lives with his family in New York City.

www.jeffreytoobin.com

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The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson

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Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election

Praise for Jeffrey Toobin’s

THE NINE

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Excellence in Nonfiction

“
The Nine
not only provides a vivid narrative history of the Court’s recent history, but also gives the reader an intimate look at individual justices, showing how personality, judicial philosophy and personal alliances can inform decisions that have huge consequences for the entire country…. Driven by the author’s assured narrative voice,
The Nine
is as informative as it is fascinating, as insightful as it is readable.”

—Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times

“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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