Every Book by Jeffrey Toobin

a list by Peter, the avid reader who runs Flashlight Worthy

It takes a talented writer to take two subjects from the opposite ends of the intellectual spectrum -- the O.J. Simpson trial and the U.S. Supreme Court -- and make them equally compelling.

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by Jeffrey Toobin

Amazon says:
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important and secret legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.

Based on exclusive interviews with 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 Bush v. Gore and Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with George W. Bush, the president she helped place in office.

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by Jeffrey Toobin

Amazon says:
From the best-selling author of "A Vast Conspiracy" and "The Run of His Life" comes "Too Close to Call" -- the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history.

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by Jeffrey Toobin

Amazon says:
What? another book about the messes Bill Clinton got himself into? Well, yes, but with a difference: Jeffrey Toobin's "A Vast Conspiracy" is the first to provide readers with comprehensive behind-the-scenes details of the machinations of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's team of prosecutors, lawyers for Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones, and congressional members as the president's "inappropriate relationship" snowballed into the country's first impeachment proceedings in over a century.

Toobin's narrative is one of the most levelheaded versions of the 1998 scandal yet published, although he has very few kind words for anybody involved. "No other major political controversy in American history produced as few heroes as this one," he notes, and "in spite of his consistently reprehensible behavior, Clinton was, by comparison, the good guy in this struggle."

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by Jeffrey Toobin

Amazon says:
Just when you thought everyone and their second-cousin had published a book on the most famous criminal proceeding of the century, along comes a book about the trial that actually deserves to be read.

Jeffrey Toobin's coverage of the trial of O.J. Simpson for The New Yorker magazine was the first to focus on the reality that no one wanted to address directly, but that pervaded every moment of the trial and perhaps even the crime itself - that race was at the heart of everything.

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by Jeffrey Toobin

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