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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Courtby: Jeffrey Toobin  List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.10 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 347.7326 EAN: 9781400096794 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 1400096790 Label: Anchor Manufacturer: Anchor Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: September 09, 2008 Publisher: Anchor Release Date: September 09, 2008 Studio: Anchor Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In The Nine, 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. 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - good background knowledge. very quick readThis is one of the unusual book that I managed to finish reading in two days. The author provided good balance of theorectical legal discussion, justices' personality/background and Washington politics/gossips. The shortcoming of such quantity of information is that the content is only sufficient to entertain readers who don't have much basic knowledge of the Supreme Court, like me. (I tend to read the business or foreign section of newspaper, but skip news related to legal issues). Read More Rating: - A very readable overview of the Rehnquist courtTHE NINE is a very readable synopsis of the members and inner workings of The Supreme Court under Rehnquist's leadership. Each judge is examined in some detail with much of the focus falling on the star of this court, O'Connor. The overall scope of the book does not lends itself to an in depth examination of any particular judge or case; instead it's main function is to provide the reader with a concise breakdown of The Court's recent history and as such it serves its purpose well. For the reader ... Read More Rating: - It All Boils Down to IdeologyIt is understandable why Mr. Toobin's "The Nine" received so many kudos and vaulted onto numerous book critics' top-ten list for the year. Like three of his earlier works pertaining to the OJ Simpson trial, President Clinton's impeachment fiasco and the 2000 Florida recount catastrophe, the author has produced a knowledgable and engrossing book about the Supreme Court. I have always been perplexed and discouraged about the near total indifference by many voters when it comes to a potential President's effect ... Read More Rating:  - Liberal biasThere are a lot of "facts" in this book which are better described as the author's liberal bias. Toobin had some direct access to individual justices, but not all, and often resorts to his opinions. If you like liberal interpretations, this is for you. Objectivity is non-existent. Rating: - Prompt shipment - new condition as promisedThe book arrived promptly in new condition as promised. 
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