In The Nine , 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.

杰弗里·图宾,1986年毕业于哈佛法学院,担任过纽约市布鲁克林区联邦助理检察官。现为《纽约客》杂志职业撰稿人,CNN资深法律评论员,是美国最出色的法律记者之一,著有一系列法律题材畅销书,包括：Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election（2002）；A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President（2000）；The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson（1997）； Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case—United States v. Oliver North（1992）。2007年出版的《九人：美国最高法院风云》（The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court）被《纽约时报》评为2007年度“十大好书”之一,同时荣获安东尼•卢卡斯非虚构类图书奖、美国律师协会“银法槌奖”。