Presented by Cody’s, with Cal’s Graduate School of Journalism and Goldman School of Public Policy, Jeffrey Toobin discusses THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin is superbly qualified to profile court and justices, taking us into the chambers of the most important — and secret — legal body in our country, and revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. In time for the 2008 presidential election, where the future of the Court will be at stake, Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations. 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. The Nine is the book bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin was born to write. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes, “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,” while Bob Woodward states, “A major achievement, lucid and probing.” Toobin is also the author of such bestsellers as Too Close to Call, A Vast Conspiracy, and The Run of His Life. He lives with his family in New York City. Toobin will be in conversation with Cynthia Gorney, who joined the Graduate School of Journalism faculty in 1999, after a career at The Washington Post that included serving as an award-winning national features writer, South American bureau chief and the first writer for the Post’s Style section based on the West Coast. She is the author of “Articles of Faith: A History of the Abortion Wars,” and has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and the American Journalism Review. Gorney is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.