Supreme Courtship | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher Buckley
Publisher: Twelve
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ISBN: 0446579823
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446579827
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Publication Date: September 3, 2008
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In bestselling author Christopher Buckley's hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America's most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court. p President Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees onto the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill a Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the nerve to reject her--Judge Pepper Cartwright, star of the nation's most popular reality show. Will Pepper, a vivacious Texan, survive a Senate confirmation battle? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. iSupreme Courtship/i is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. BR HR class=bucketDivider noShade SIZE=1 BRB class=h1Amazon.com Exclusive/BBR bAn Essay from Christopher Buckley/b p IMG src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promotions/BuckleyChristopher-amzn.jpg" align=left border=0 Somewhere in this brilliant, hilarious, impossible-to-put-down--to say nothing of moderately priced--new book of mine, the narrator notes that appointing a Supreme Court justice is pretty much the most consequential thing a president can do, short of declaring nuclear war; more to the point, that this fact is generally pointed out every four years by whoever is running second in the presidential election. p The Supreme Court is by any definition the most important branch of government. Who else has the power to say--without fear of being contradicted by someone higher up the food chain--"Congratulations, you just won the presidential election, even though the other guy got more votes!" Or, "We really feel awful about this, but you have to be lethally injected tonight at midnight."? If you're on the Supreme Court, you are the top of the food chain. p I've written satires about other Washington institutions. It never occurred to me to try one about the Supreme Court, for the reason that I never found it particularly funny. It was my editor, Jonathan Karp, who suggested it, and if the book turns out to be a stinkeroo and bombs, I am going to petition the Court to have him lethally injected. p At some point, while scratching my noggin and trying to come up with some way into a satire about the Marble Palace, I scribbled on a legal pad (how appropriate is that?): iJudge Judy on the Court/i. p I called Karp and ran it past him. He laughed, which I always take as a good sign, since he doesn't laugh at 99 out of 100 of my genius ideas. p My Judge Judy is a sexy Texan named Pepper Cartwright. She was an actual judge before she became a TV hottie. How, you ask, did she get on the Court in the first place? Well, it all starts on page one where--did I mention how moderately priced the book is? p i--Christopher Buckley/i br HR class=bucketDivider noShade SIZE=1
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President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating EMTo Kill A Mockingbird/EM, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her -- Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, EMCourtroom Six/EM. BRBRWill Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman. BRBRBRSoon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. EMSupreme Courtship/EM is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. (2008)
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Another Buckley Gem December 2, 2008
Robert G. Fisch
Once again Christopher Buckley proves he is the all-time master of political humor. A well crafted, entertaining read.
 Fun quick read. November 23, 2008
Mitz
Enjoyed the book and the easy writing style. A good book to take on a trip. Funny lines.
 Cynical does NOT equal funny! November 19, 2008
K P Winterer (Beaufort, SC United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
All his books remind me of the guy at the Christmas party with a lampshade on his head trying SO hard to be funny! Oh, he's got all the stereotypes down pat but he adds nothing interesting. If I can be so bold, he's the exact opposite of his father whose every word is thought-provoking. None of Christopher's is. Like all his other books, this is silly, boring, and just not worth your time. I find the destruction of our government based on the original Constitution not nearly as amusing as does the author.
 Funniest thing I 've read this millenium.... November 13, 2008
Joseph Horton (Hoover, AL USA)
And it is. If Buckley-the-younger's other stuff was good, this is great. Remember when Earl K. Long, thinking about the Louisiana law what said a governor could only succeed himself once? Earl came up with an almost Einstein-like thought experiment: has asked--rhetorically, of course--"what would happen if, maybe 6 months before an election, I stepped down from being governor?" br / br /A. J. Liebling, in his wonderful book, The Earl of Louisiana, says, "Even Huey [Earl's older and far more famous brother] didn't think of that." Blaze Starr was never as good-looking as Lolita Davidovich, who played opposite Paul Newman in Blaze, but most of the history was accurate. I remember--I grew up in New Orleans and was in a very political family, so I saw it all happening in what passed for real time back in the day. br / br /President Vandercamp, bowling enthusiasm notwithstanding, inspires the opposite in his Congressional adversaries: they propose and, in Congress, pass a term limit amendment. Then it gets interesting....
Almost-reality, unfortunately! November 4, 2008
R. J. Freels (Knoxville, TN)
Christopher Buckley is an author who earns the title. In this book there are subtle literary references, laugh-out-loud situations, and the overall unfortunate feeling that it hits a bit too close to the reality of today's world. A must-read for anyone who can still laugh about politics.
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