1/2/2024 0 Comments Supreme courtship book reviewĪll in all, the novel is a romp, but it's satire that isn't so far off the mark. It's not great writing, and nothing is lost by listening to it in its rendition by Anne Heche. ![]() But there's romance, politics, and skullduggery and a fairly fast-paced plot. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. (Twelve, 24.99.) (Twelve, 24.99.) A shimmer of realism emanates from Buckley’s mischievous novel, in which an unpopular president nominates a TV. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. The Court she joins is more diverse than our own, an interesting touch. SUPREME COURTSHIP, by Christopher Buckley. After the fictional Judge Cooney and another highly qualified nominee are nixed, the highly unpopular president nominates an unconventional choice - an exceedingly popular television judge, Pepper Cartwright. However, for those looking for summer reading of the more creative - and humorous sort - a better bet would is Buckley's novel. So far, no movie or book reviews from SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan's elementary school days have surfaced, although her senior college thesis, To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933, is making the rounds, garnering comments (NYT here) and is available here. This is the opening of Christopher Buckley's novel, Supreme Courtship, published in 2008 and more timely than ever. ![]() As a Senator - who also happens to be a sworn presidential enemy who aspires to the high bench himself - phrases it, he could "not in good conscience bring myself to vote for someone who might show up at the Court on the first Monday in October wearing not black judicial robes but the white uniform of the Ku Klux Klan." In a movie review for his elementary newspaper, The Beaverboard, the twelve year old future-Judge Cooney assessed the classic film To Kill a Mockingbird with these fateful words: "Though the picture is overall OK, it's also kind of boring in parts." Not very good writing, even for a twelve year old, but it is the political import of the sentiment that sounds the death knell for Judge Cooney's nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
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