![]() Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. 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. In author Christopher Buckley's capable hands, what starts as a simple send-up of our political mores develops into a rich tale of our media-centric culture. But Nozick was super smart and I’m sure if I made my way through these books, he would have done so with just a modicum of the energies I mustered. ![]() Will 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. The year began with Roberto Bolao’s 2666 and ended with David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, maybe the two best book-ended modern examples of what Nozick sought, the unreadable book. Congress, which has tagged him Don Veto for rejecting every spending bill that. 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 guts to reject her - Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six. Vanderdamp, the blandly honest bowling enthusiast occupying the White House in Supreme Courtship. ![]() Buckley on his way to the Supreme Courtship: nothing funny occurred to him. ![]() An anomalously funny thing happened to Mr. 3, 2008 As before, Buckley (Boomsday, 2007, etc.) blurs the line distinguishing the historical, the plausible and the preposterous amid the political circus of anything-goes Washington. President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. But he usually writes satirically, while his new book is a broad farce. SUPREME COURTSHIP by Christopher Buckley RELEASE DATE: Sept. ![]()
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