{"product_id":"2940169088601","title":"The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court","description":"\u003cb\u003eBestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the Supreme Court and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on exclusive interviews with the 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 \u003ci\u003eBush v. Gore\u003c\/i\u003e-and Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with George W. Bush, the president she helped place in office. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NINE is the book Toobin was born to write. He is a bestselling author, a CNN senior legal analyst, and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e staff writer. No one is more superbly qualified to profile the nine justices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Compact Disc edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116353700080,"sku":"2940169088601","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169088601_p0.jpg?v=1763671729","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169088601","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}