by Jeffrey Toobin
Review:
Bestselling author, a CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer, Toobin surveys the Court from the Reagan administration onward. Toobin explores the justices stance on abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, gay rights and church-state separation. This is not a book that needs to be read word for word or straight through page by page. I skipped around for the most part and still got a good sense of the book as a whole. I especially recommend reading Part One in it's entirety and skimming Part Two. Part Three can be skimmed and Four should be read from start to finish. This book opened my eyes to the "real" Sandra Day O'Connor and how much of an impact she had as a woman on our society. Overall, this was a nice overview of the ins and outs of the Supreme Court and an interesting/informative read during an election year. I highly suggest this to all political science and history buffs.
