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Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, 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 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 bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin was born to write. A CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer, no one is more superbly qualified to profile the nine justices.

傑弗裏·圖賓，1986年畢業於哈佛法學院，擔任過紐約市布魯剋林區聯邦助理檢察官。現為《紐約客》雜誌職業撰稿人，CNN資深法律評論員，是美國最齣色的法律記者之一，著有一係列法律題材暢銷書，包括：Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election（2002）；A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President（2000）；The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson（1997）； Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case—United States v. Oliver North（1992）。2007年齣版的《九人：美國最高法院風雲》（The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court）被《紐約時報》評為2007年度“十大好書”之一，同時榮獲安東尼•盧卡斯非虛構類圖書奬、美國律師協會“銀法槌奬”。