From the prizewinning author of The Nine , a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.

From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, charming, determined to change the course of the nation—and completely at odds on almost every major constitutional issue. One is radical; one essentially conservative. The surprise is that Obama is the conservative—a believer in incremental change, compromise, and pragmatism over ideology. Roberts—and his allies on the Court—seek to overturn decades of precedent: in short, to undo the ultimate victory FDR achieved in the New Deal.

This ideological war will crescendo during the 2011-2012 term, in which several landmark cases are on the Court's docket—most crucially, a challenge to Obama's controversial health-care legislation. With four new justices joining the Court in just five years, including Obama's appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, this is a dramatically—and historically—different Supreme Court, playing for the highest of stakes.

No one is better positioned to chronicle this dramatic tale than Jeffrey Toobin, whose prize-winning bestseller The Nine laid bare the inner workings and conflicts of the Court in meticulous and entertaining detail. As the nation prepares to vote for President in 2012, the future of the Supreme Court will also be on the ballot.

杰弗里·图宾

生于1960年，《纽约客》杂志专职作家，有线电视新闻网（CNN）高级法律分析师。曾任《哈佛法律评论》编辑。图宾于1986年以最优成绩获哈佛大学法学院法律博士学位，随后担任独立检察官劳伦斯·沃尔什的助理顾问，及纽约市布鲁克林区的联邦助理检察官。1993年加入《纽约客》。《 誓言：奥巴马与最高法院》是图宾的最新著作，2012年由道布尔戴出版社出版，随即成为《纽约时报》畅销书。

图宾已出版作品：

《开庭陈述，一个年轻律师的第一案：美国诉奥利弗·诺斯案》（1992）

《他的人生旅程：人民诉辛普森案》（1997）

《大阴谋：那几乎打垮一个总统的性丑闻的真相》（2000）

《难分难解：决定2000年大选的36天战役》（2001）

以及《九人：美国最高法院风云》（2007），入选《纽约时报》年度十佳图书，并于次年获得美国律师协会银法槌奖，以及由哥伦比亚大学新闻学院与哈佛大学尼曼新闻基金会联合颁发的J.安东尼·卢卡斯非虚构作品奖，中文版获评2009-2010年度上海市优秀引进版图书。

译者简介

于霄

生于1982年，山东枣庄人。山东大学法学、英语双学士（2005），山东大学法学硕士（2008），华东政法大学法学博士（2011）。现工作于华东政法大学科学研究院。曾获国家社科基金后期资助项目和教育部人文社科项目，著有《1925年英国财产立法改革研究》和《英国土地登记法律制度史研究》，译有《律师与社会：美德两国法律职业比较研究》和《我知道笼中鸟为何歌唱》等，并在核心期刊上发表论文多篇。