The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Written by:
Jeffrey Toobin
Narrated by:
Don Leslie

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
17
Narrator
1
Release Date
September 2007
Duration
15 hours 50 minutes
Summary
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the Supreme Court and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.

Just in time for the 2008 presidential election–where the future of the Court will be at stake–Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations.

Based on exclusive interviews with the justices themselves, THE NINE tells the story of the Court through personalities–from Anthony Kennedy’s overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas’s well-tended grievances against his critics to David Souter’s odd nineteenth-century lifestyle. There is also, for the first time, the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Gore–and Sandra Day O’Connor’s fateful breach with George W. Bush, the president she helped place in office.

THE NINE is the book Toobin was born to write. He is a bestselling author, a CNN senior legal analyst, and New Yorker staff writer. No one is more superbly qualified to profile the nine justices.
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John S.

Not at all what I expected. Instead of a more or less objective look at the High Court's inner workings, the author made it clear in the first twenty minutes that this was to be an apologetic for liberal activist judges. No thank you!

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Kathy

This was very interesting, and the author was a good narrator for his own material. However, I found the abridging to be a bit "choppy" and so it seemed that the material was not always in a linear timeframe.

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