Jeffrey Toobin's Reading List

The author of “The Nine,” “The Run of His Life” and, most recently, “American Heiress” wrote his senior thesis about Samuel Adams: “Musical rights to this work are still available.”

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By the Book: Jeffrey Toobin (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-08-04).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Ghettoside

Jill Leovy · Buy on Amazon

"Meticulously reported and gracefully written, this book captures the horror of urban violence in Los Angeles."

Positively Fifth Street

James McManus · Buy on Amazon

"I also have a weakness for authors who are obsessed with subjects that may not ordinarily hold great interest for me."

Confederates in the Attic

Tony Horwitz · Buy on Amazon

"I also have a weakness for authors who are obsessed with subjects that may not ordinarily hold great interest for me."

Cadillac Desert

Marc Reisner · Buy on Amazon

"I also have a weakness for authors who are obsessed with subjects that may not ordinarily hold great interest for me."

Assassination Vacation

Sarah Vowell · Buy on Amazon

"I also have a weakness for authors who are obsessed with subjects that may not ordinarily hold great interest for me."

Men in Green

Michael Bamberger · Buy on Amazon

"I wish Michael Bamberger's "Men in Green," about an earlier generation of P.G.A. stars, were about 400 pages longer than it is."

The Brethren

Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong · Buy on Amazon

"No one (including, alas, me) has ever gotten inside the Supreme Court the way that Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong did in "The Brethren.""

The Death of Contract

Grant Gilmore · Buy on Amazon

"For academic (but not too academic) insight into how the law develops over time, I admire Grant Gilmore's venerable little gem, "The Death of Contract.""

One L

Scott Turow · Buy on Amazon

"For the experience of law school, still the obvious one: Turow's "One L.""

Which Side Are You On?

Thomas Geoghegan · Buy on Amazon

"The collected memoir-ish work of Thomas Geoghegan (especially his first, "Which Side Are You On?"), which manages to be both really funny and really depressing."

Common Ground

J. Anthony Lukas · Buy on Amazon

""Common Ground," by J. Anthony Lukas, about the Boston busing crisis of the '70s, is the closest thing I know to a perfect book."

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam · Buy on Amazon

"White House mess serves hubris; Vietnam ensues."

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