Last week I finished reading Toobin's The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. And if you know people who are interested in the Court's workings and its recent ideological shifts, but who don't know a great deal about it I think you should strongly recommend this book to them. Toobin shows a remarkable gift for telling an important story in a way that even those who don't closely follow politics or the Court can understand. While it's very much about matters internal to the Court, it's a bit less inside caught up in the behind the scenes issues than Jan Crawford Greenburg's book was. Put another way, it's something that'll seem more relevant to the daily lives of most Americans (I mean I'm interested in who Leonard Leo had brunch with when, but I expect most readers of these kinds of books don't really care). Though even those who already know a lot about the Court will learn some new things here.
Posted by armand at February 4, 2008 11:06 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Books