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New from Christopher Buckley
By Jessica Schneider Aug 27, 2008, 12:12 GMT
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 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. Will Pepper, ...more
“Supreme Courtship” is this new title by Christopher Buckley.
According to the AP, the book is: “a wry behind-the-scenes tale of Washington politics and the nation's highest court by Christopher Buckley, the political satirist who wrote ‘Thank You for Smoking’.”
The reviewer also notes: “Buckley tells the tale in a fast-moving, breezy style. He gleefully sends up absurdities of modern-day political life, complete with biting footnotes on such topics as the Iowa caucus and political pollsters. No matter what your political views, you can reach only one verdict on this book: hilarious.”
Yet Publishers Weekly states: “Unfortunately for the reader, Pepper's story gets lost between the jokes and the overstuffed plot (including a romance with the Chief Justice, the investigation of a leak inside the Supreme Court and a nuclear threat from China), and the satire is oddly detached from the zeitgeist.”
Twelve is the publisher. Read more here.
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