Jeffrey Toobin Biography

Jeffrey Toobin is an American lawyer, pundit, blogger, author, and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker. He served as an associate counsel in the Department of Justice during the Iran–Contra affair, and then moved from law into writing during the 1990s.

Jeffrey Toobin Age

He was born on May 21, 1960 in New York City, New York, United States. He is 58 years old as of 2018.

Jeffrey Toobin Family

He was born to a Jewish family in New York City. He is the son of Jerome Toobin, a news broadcasting producer, and Marlene Sanders, former ABC News and CBS News correspondent.

Jeffrey Toobin Wife

He is married to Amy Bennett McIntosh since 1986. During their wedding, Paul Attanasio was best man, and Anne-Marie Slaughter was matron of honor.

The two met while they worked at the Harvard Crimson together in college. His wife Amy Bennett McIntosh is a 1980 Harvard graduate, holding an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has held executive positions at Verizon and Zagat Survey. He has two children, a daughter and son.

Jeffrey Toobin Education

He studied at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, a private preparatory school in New York City. Toobin then pursued undergraduate studies at Harvard College.

While in College, Toobin covered sports for The Harvard Crimson, where his column was titled “Inner Toobin.” He then graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American History and Literature, and was awarded a Truman Scholarship.

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In 1986, Toobin graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude with a J.D. While he was there, he had been an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Jeffrey Toobin Career

Toobin started working in 1993 at The New Yorker and became a television legal analyst for ABC in 1996. He has provided broadcast legal analysis on many high profile cases.

In 1994, he broke the story in The New Yorker that the O. J. Simpson legal team in his criminal trial planned to play “the race card” by accusing Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence.

Toobin provided analysis of Michael Jackson’s 2005 child molestation trial, the Starr investigation of President Clinton, and the O.J. Simpson civil case. In 2000, he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elián González custody saga

He joined CNN in 2002, where he is now chief legal analyst. In 2003, Toobin secured the first interview with Martha Stewart about the insider trading charges against her.

Jeffrey Toobin Author

Toobin has written several books, including one on the O.J. Simpson murder case, which was adapted as a series, The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and it aired in 2016 as the first season of FX American Crime Story. The series won numerous Emmy awards.

Jeffrey Toobin Books

• Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case, U.S. V. Oliver North – 1991
• Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case, United States V. Oliver North – 1991
• The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson – 1996
• A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President – 1999
• Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election – 2001
• The Nine – 2007
• The Best American Crime Reporting – 2009
• The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court – 2012
• American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst – 2016

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Jeffrey Toobin Oj Simpson

It has been the most closely watched and controversial legal proceeding of our time, and Jeffrey Toobin has written the definitive history of what has become the trial of the century. Here is the whole story of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and their aftermath, as it has never been told – rich in character, driven by the nonstop plot of a legal thriller, and nuanced by the foibles, vanities, and idiosyncrasies of its participants. Featuring a new chapter on the O.J. Simpson civil trial, The Run of His Life – hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “the pick of the litter” – is a breathtakingly paced narrative that will long outlast the daily headlines.

Originally published: September 4, 1996
Author: Jeffrey Toobin
Genre: True crime

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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court is a 2007 non-fiction book by Jeffrey Toobin. Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important and secret legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.

An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices and with a keen sense of the Court’s history and the trajectory of its future, Jeffrey Toobin creates in The Nine a riveting story of one of the most important forces in American life today.

Originally published: 2007
Author: Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin American Heiress

A National Bestseller

From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history

On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst Family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbonese Liberation Army. The weird turns that followed in this already sensational take are truly astonishing–the Hearst family tried to secure Patty’s release by feeding the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free; bank security cameras captured “Tania” wielding a machine gun during a roberry; the LAPD engaged in the largest police shoot-out in American history; the first breaking news event was broadcast live on telelvision stations across the country; and then there was Patty’s circuslike trial, filled with theatrical courtroom confrontations and a dramatic last-minute reversal, after which the term “Stockholm syndrome” entered the lexicon.

Ultimately, the saga highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown. American Heiress portrays the electrifying lunacy of the time and the toxic mic of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patty Hearst and captivated the nation.

Originally published: August 2, 2016
Author: Jeffrey Toobin
Genres: Biography, True crime

The Oath Jeffrey Toobin

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.

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CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin hammers ‘pathetic’ Democrats in searing rant – here’s why

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin hammered the Democrats on Tuesday for their reticence to fight Republicans for fear that it might excite the base on the right to vote in the midterm elections.

‘They are afraid of everything!’

Toobin was specifically responding to a controversial statement from Hillary Clinton about the tactics that Democrats should take against Republicans.

“Jeffrey Toobin, does she help, Hillary Clinton, or hurt Democratic candidates now four weeks away from the midterm elections?” asked CNN host Wolf Blitzer.

“Well let me just say, in answer, I think Democrats are pathetic!” Toobin responded. “They are afraid of everything!

“It’s like, ‘Oh we can’t have Hillary talk because it will motivate the Republican base,’” he said in a mocking tone. “‘We can’t have Barack Obama talk cuz it’ll motivate their base! We can’t talk about impeachment or it’ll motivate their base!’”

“You know what?” he added, “Hillary Clinton got 3 million votes than the other guy in 2016.”

“I don’t see why she shouldn’t be campaigning around the country,” he concluded. “I don’t see why Barack Obama shouldn’t be campaigning. She is an enormously important figure in American history. She got 60 plus million votes. I don’t see why she shouldn’t speak out like any other famous person.”

“Absolutely not!” fired back former CIA official Phil Mudd. “She needs an extended vacation in the Arctic!”

Watch part of Toobin’s comments below:

Clinton was criticized Tuesday for her comments that civility should not be used with Republicans since they were trying to destroy the values of the Democrats.

“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Clinton said. “That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.”

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