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"Nine Men" vividly tells the contemporary history of the Supreme Court, and also enables readers to observe the justices closely and explain how their personality characteristics, judicial ideas and interpersonal communication have influenced the judgment that changed the whole country ... "Nine Men" is rich in content, fascinating, insightful and interesting to read. -Michiko Kakutani, chief book reviewer of The New York Times and Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Jeffrey Toobin (1960-), a graduate of Harvard Law School, used to be an assistant to the federal prosecutor, and is now a full-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine and the chief legal analyst of CNN. His other works include Oath: The White House and the Supreme Court, Opening Statement: America v. Oliver North, Simpson Case: The Trial of the Century, The Summit in Court, Impeachment: The Truth of Lewinsky Incident, etc. Tubin won the American Bar Association Silver Hammer Award and the J. Anthony Lucas Non-fiction Award.
He Fan, born in 1978, from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, now works in the Supreme People's Court. He is the author of Research on Criminal Confiscation, Basic Thoughts on Trial of Criminal-Civil Cross Cases, and The Justice in Charge. , and has translated From Specialized Trial to Specialized Court, What Judges Can Do for Democracy, Criterion for Criticizing Officials, 12 Angry People, Guide to Writing Judges' Judgment Documents, and What to Learn from Law School, etc.
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A few years ago, I saw a book "The Gate of Law", which seems to be a textbook of American universities. It can be described as an emperor's work. After reading this book, I found that the other half of American legal history hidden by the former is closely related to the self-classification of people: whether it is the ideological classification that this book focuses on or the previous classification of regions, nationalities or beliefs, the formulation and implementation of the law itself are largely determined by the leading forces of these classifications. This is the real world. We need to accept the best part and the worst part together. PS: In the past ten years, Justice Ginsburg has become a legend, and my daughter is her fan. So I will recommend this book to her, so that she can see women's justice from another angle.
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In the preface of the first edition of The Translator, I once dedicated this book to a street policeman in Wuhan in the winter of 1999. That year, he just graduated from college, and he had infinite expectations for the future, but he was full of confusion. I still dedicate this book to him and his peers when it is revised and reprinted after 10. Yes, the future has come, but we don't want to make peace with life in a hurry. We have all kinds of longings and confusions, and we are full of hope for uncertain years. I hope readers will live up to today and not be afraid of the future.
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The Supreme Court is a "sacred" place in a society ruled by law, but there is also a game between human feelings and various forces in this place. This book is more like a chronological interpretation of many sections. You can see how the Supreme Court has intertwined and struggled with real politics in the past 50 years. The newly translated version is really much better, and it is also very close to the current state.
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I finally finished reading this book this morning. The writer is Tu Bin, a senior legal writer, and the translator is He Fan, a judge in the Supreme People's Court, China. As one of He Fan's thanks in the translation preface, I still want to write a few comments:
I appreciate the fluency of the translation, especially biographies, which is actually what the translator is proud of. Of course, the reason why you can keep reading is not only fluency, but also gossip about the content. For legal persons, the significance of gossip lies in helping them really understand how the Supreme Court's judgment is made. Therefore, for those who are interested in the Supreme Court of the United States, they should not only read relevant academic monographs, but also read such gossip books. Even, it should be used as the premise or bedding for in-depth reading of relevant monographs. Compared with previous similar books, the highlight of this book is to discuss the latest changes of the US Supreme Court since the 1960s.
In a word, reading gossip is not only for entertainment, but also for petty bourgeoisie and academics. Therefore, I strongly recommend intellectuals to read this book.