![]() 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. He faces off against Mitchell, who ditches his role as television president to run for real president, and before you can say “Whizzer White,” it is left up to newbie Pepper and the rest of the Supremes to decide the fate of the election. Vanderdamp, meanwhile, mounts a re-election bid to protest Congress’s approval of an absurd term limits amendment. Once Pepper is confirmed and leaves her show, her producer (and soon-to-be ex-husband), Buddy Bixby, persuades Mitchell to leave the Senate and try his hand at acting as the star of the political drama POTUS Dexter “Hang ’em High” Mitchell torpedoes his first two contenders. When a television judge ends up on the Supreme Court, romance and the fate of a presidential. Vanderdamp nominates Pepper Cartwright after Sen. All about Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley. Hachette/Twelve, 24. On the whole, though, it's not one of Buckley's best.From the indefatigable Buckley comes a flabby satire about a television judge who ends up on the Supreme Court. ![]() The novel is amusing and even hilarious at times. No reader will be surprised to learn that Pepper is, in fact, named to the Court. Mortimer Brinnins deteriorating mental condition had been the. This is the set-up in Supreme Courtship, Christopher Buckley's satirical treatment of the U.S. The President is convinced the Senate won't dare reject her nomination, given her sky-high Q rating. Now in her mid-thirties, Pepper is uncommonly facile with the English language-and uncommonly attractive. While searching for a bowling show on television over a weekend at Camp David, President Vanderdamp chances upon Pepper's show and is immediately enchanted. About all that remains is to find someone who can gain the approval of the Senate for that Supreme Court slot.Įnter Judge Perdita "Pepper" Cartwright, star of the top-rated reality TV show, Courtroom Six. All he wants to do is move back home to Wapakoneta, Ohio, where he can go bowling as often as he wishes. In retaliation, the Senate has rejected the two eminently qualified jurists he nominated for an open seat on the Supreme Court. ![]() Congress, and politicians of both parties, despise him, because he has vetoed every spending bill that reached his desk. Wet Work Christopher Buckley HCDJ 1990 1st. Buckley Jr., the 35-year-old editor of the National Review. Christopher Buckley SUPREME COURTSHIP 1st Edition 1st Printing. The premise of Christopher Buckleys new political comedy, Supreme Courtship, isnt all that far-fetched. (2008) (2008) 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. Vanderdamp, has an approval rating barely above twenty. GERALD BRENYA is an Englishman who settled in the south of Spain shortly after the First World War. the indefatigable Buckley comes a flabby satire about a television judge who ends up on the Supreme Court. Barry Goldwater, the libertarian Arizona Republican and conservative hero, wrote a letter to William F. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. ![]() Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. The President of the United States, Donald P. Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley.
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