Guide Note

Based on interviews with Justices and former clerks, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court analyzes the ideologies of and relationships between the sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices.

Fast Facts

1. Author: Jeffrey Toobin
2. Publication Date: 2007
3. Publisher: Doubleday
4. Pages: 384
5. ISBN 0385516401
6. New York Times bestseller

• The Washington Post's Book World: "Toobin does not give us a coherent framework for thinking about the court. He tends to applaud compromise, particularly when it yields middle-of-the road decisions that accord with public opinion, but he does not offer any explanation for why judges interpreting the Constitution should see compromise or public approval as their goal."
• Publishers Weekly: "The author deftly distills the issues and enlivens his narrative of the Court's internal wranglings with sharp thumbnail sketches…His savvy account puts the supposedly cloistered Court right in the thick of American life."