![]() In 2004 he was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He is the recipient of the 2002 Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence. His journalism, satire and criticism has been widely published-in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Washington Monthly, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Esquire, and other publications. Buckley has contributed over 60 comic essays to The New Yorker magazine. They include: The White House Mess, Wet Work, Thank You For Smoking, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday and Supreme Courtship. Supreme Courtship does, after all, posit a Supreme Court nominee who is rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee for having opined, at the age of 12, that parts of the movie To Kill a. He is the author of twelve books, most of them national bestsellers. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Since 1989 he has been founder and editor-in-chief of Forbes Life magazine. At age 29, he became chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. He shipped out in the Merchant Marine and at age 24 became managing editor of Esquire magazine. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.Ĭhristopher Buckley graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1976. 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. Christopher Buckley, 'the quintessential political novelist of his time' according to Fortune magazine, is the winner of the distinguished ninth annual Thurber Prize for American Humor. 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. Supreme Courtship is another classic Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. 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. President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |