Zusatztext Compelling. . . . 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 Smart and entertaining. . . . 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. The New York Times Book Review Toobin's sparkling new work is anecdotally rich and clearly written. . . . A testimony to [his] skill. USA Today Intelligent and even-handed. . . . Toobin's access to the Supremes and their secret little world is phenomenal. Chicago Sun-Times 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 muchneeded 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! NPRThis 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 Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Toobin Klappentext 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. Leseprobe 1 THE FEDERALIST WAR OF IDEAS For a long time, during the middle of the twentieth century, it wasn't even clear what it meant to be a judicial conservative. Then, with great suddenness, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, judges and lawyers on the right found a voice and an agenda. Their goals reflected and reinforced the political goals of the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Earl Warren, who served as chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969, exerted a powerful and lasting influence over American law. The former California governor, who was appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, put the fight against state-sponsored racism at the heart of his agenda. Starting in 1954, with Brown v. Board of Education , which outlawed segregation in public education, the justices began more than a dozen years of sustained, and usually unanimous, pressure against the forces of official segregation. Within the legal profession in particular, ...

8220;Compelling. . . . 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“Smart and entertaining. . . . 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.”—The New York Times Book Review“Toobin’s sparkling new work is anecdotally rich and clearly written. . . . A testimony to [his] skill.” —USA Today“Intelligent and even-handed. . . . Toobin’s access to the Supremes and their secret little world is phenomenal.”—Chicago Sun-Times“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 muchneeded 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

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Jeffrey Toobin

Klappentext

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.

Leseprobe
1
THE FEDERALIST
WAR OF IDEAS

For a long time, during the middle of the twentieth century, it wasn't even clear what it meant to be a judicial conservative. Then, with great suddenness, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, judges and lawyers on the right found a voice and an agenda. Their goals reflected and reinforced the political goals of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.

Earl Warren, who served as chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969, exerted a powerful and lasting influence over American law. The former California governor, who was appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, put the fight against state-sponsored racism at the heart of his agenda. Starting in 1954, with Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed segregation in public education, the justices began more than a dozen years of sustained, and usually unanimous, pressure against the forces of official segregation. Within the legal profession in particular, Warren's record on civil rights gave him tremendous moral authority. Warren and his colleagues, especially William J. Bren…