{"product_id":"supreme-courtship-9780446697989","title":"Supreme Courtship","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eTo Kill A Mockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eCourtroom Six\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eSupreme Courtship\u003c\/i\u003e is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New York City in 1952. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey, worked on a Norwegian tramp freighter and graduated cum laude from Yale. At age 24 he was managing editor of Esquire magazine; at 29, chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. He was the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eForbes FYI\u003c\/i\u003e magazine (now \u003ci\u003eForbesLife\u003c\/i\u003e), where he is now editor-at-large. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He is the author of fifteen books, which have translated into sixteen languages. They include: \u003ci\u003eSteaming To Bamboola, The White House Mess, Wet Work, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThank You For Smoking\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a movie in 2005. Most have been named \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Books of the Year. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, New York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Monthly, Forbes, Esquire, Vogue, Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He received the Washington Irving Prize for Literary Excellence and the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He lives in Connecticut.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Twelve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50411688591634,"sku":"9780446697989","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a17b1b17-50e2-4c26-b06b-a0ef1ed76433.jpg?v=1729312489","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/supreme-courtship-9780446697989","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}