The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court-Quality Guarantee

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Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of themost important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealingthe complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institutionat a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changesin store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. Basedon exclusive interviews with the justices and with a keen sense of the Court’s historyand the trajectory of its future, Jeffrey Toobin creates in The Nine a riveting storyof one of the most important forces in American life today.