I wanted more after the 2016 mini-series. 'The Run of His Life' is an easy listen, but for Toobin at his finest, listen to 'The Nine.' Perhaps it is better that Toobin just let them all be. Goldman and the Simpsons' children were the only people in the whole saga who unquestionably deserve respect and empathy. Toobin barely mentions Goldman in 'The Run of His Life'. And, of course, there is, was and always will be Orinthal James Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson, and the relationship they had that ended in murderous rage, taking along with it an unfortunate Ron Goldman. A terminally lazy investigator, Tom Lange. The not-successfully-secret racist cop Mark Fuhrman. The stressed Marcia Clark, manipulated by a malicious soon-to-be ex-husband. There were the sycophants Robert Kardashian and Robert Shapiro, and the amoral F. Christopher Darden, a promising young prosecutor, had his career derailed by allowing himself to be goaded by the savviest trial attorney of the bunch, Johnnie L. There was Judge Lance Ito, who looked great on paper, but had no case management skills and no courtroom control. As good as Toobin's book really is (and correspondingly, the television treatment), I am pretty sure that by the end of the trial, he'd lost respect for just about everyone involved - including himself. It was sitting next to a stack of musty copies of the equally execrable 'Madam Foreman: A Rush to Judgment' (1995) by jurors Armanda Cooley et. Faye Resnick's 'Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted' (1994)? Well, let's just say I thumbed through a copy at The 99 Cent Store. Marcia Clark's 'Without a Doubt' (1998) was quite good, and had a very personal discussion of the defense aspect of the case. 'The Run of His Life' is the best book I've come across about 'The (Last) Trial of the Century.' There are far too many books on the topic to read. Simpson trial, though? Toobin wrote what was arguably the best book on the chaos that was the crime itself the riveting drama of the low speed chase and the unrelenting trial and media coverage that consumed Los Angeles for almost a year. I suspect that Toobin, a Harvard educated lawyer and ardent follower of the US Supreme Court ('The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court' (2007)) couldn't stay away from the drama and intrigue of the high court he loves. The demands of commenting on FX's 'American Crime Story' (2016) mini-series based on this book and his ongoing analysis of the death of Antonin Scalia and President Obama's (so far) unproductive nomination of Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court must have overwhelmed him. Simpson' (1996) asleep on CNN a couple of weeks ago. I saw Jeffrey Toobin, the author of 'The Run of His Life: The People v.

The Run of His Life by Jeffrey Toobin