JEFFREY TOOBIN
Friday, October 5 at 7 p.m. at Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue
Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. One of the season’s more anticipated—and important—non-fiction books is The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Doubleday), by New Yorker legal affairs correspondent and attorney Jeffrey Toobin. “It’s not laws or constitutional theory that rule the High Court, argues this absorbing group profile, but quirky men and women guided by political intuition. Toobin surveys the court from the Reagan administration onward, as the justices wrestled with abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, gay rights and church-state separation … The author deftly distills the issues and enlivens the narrative of the Court’s internal wranglings with sharp thumbnail sketches … and editorials … His savvy account puts the supposedly cloistered Court right in the thick of American life.” - Publishers Weekly. “This is a remarkable, riveting book. So great are Toobin’s narrative skills that both the justices and their inner world are brought vividly to life.” - Doris Kearns Goodwin. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis (no advance tickets). Special note: The Library will close at its regular 6 p.m. Friday closing time. The Fourth Avenue entrance will reopen at 6:30 p.m. The Seattle Public Central Library is located at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). Special $5 parking coupons (limited availability) for the Library parking garage will be available for those attending. For more information, please see www.spl.org or call (206) 386-4636.