Fresh Air, Jeffrey Toobin and Ben Cheever

Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and writer Ben Cheever on this edition of Fresh Air. Jeffrey Toobin's new book is an investigation into the bush gore presidential recount. It's called, Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election. He also has a piece in the latest New Yorker, about the new anti-terrorism legislation. His last book, A Vast Conspiracy, was about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Toobin is also a legal analyst for ABC news. Ben Cheever's new book is called Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square 1 in a Service Economy. In 1995, Cheever lost his publisher and was not able to sell his third novel. To continue working, he decided to take jobs at chain bookstores, car dealerships, and sandwich shops. His book is about his 5 years working in the "service economy." Cheever's novels include The Plagiarist, The Partisan, and Famous After Death. He has been a newspaper reporter and an editor at Reader's Digest. (Broadcast Date: November 6, 2001)