Have to say, though I doubt I'll be asked back on. On-air interview he realized he'd been had. Talk about that on air?' I said, 'Okay.' About a minute into our I said, 'Um hum.' His brow furrowed and he said, 'So we could Howard Taft?' It was toward the end of the book tour and I was a little Was before we were on air-and said, 'You were an advisor to William The only part of my book that he would read. I saw him scanning the author bio, which I knew would be I entered the studio where I was to be interviewed by an AM Since William Howard Taft (not true: he was President of the US fromġ909-13). On one, I said that I was born inġ952 (true) and also that I had been an advisor to every president Q: What's the weirdest experience you've had on a book tour?ĬB: You know those author bios on the flaps of book jackets? My ownīio is boring, so I make them up. Increasingly, my attitude is: 'F*** `em if they can't take a joke.' I don't think I've had a good review from the New York Times since I can remember. Q: Do you ever get nervous that people aren't going to see the humor in what you're writing?ĬB: Oh, that happens all the time, and most often with the reviewers. I once had the pleasure of interviewing Buckley via email (always theĮditor-he worked at Esquire and Forbes Life-he actuallyĮdited one of my questions: ]). The inner workings and politics at play in our country's highest court. Work (that would be a tie between Thank You For Smoking and Little Green Men)īut it's a hilarious-and at times incredibly insightful-depiction of TV's most beloved Texan judge, Pepper Cartwright. Thinly veiled satire about a wildly unpopular American president who inĪn act of vengeance against an uncooperative Senate, nominates reality Retirement plans (c'mon, the guy's 89!), I couldn't help but think ofĬhristopher Buckley's bitingly funny novel Supreme Courtship, a With all the news swirling over Justice John Paul Stevens much deserved Buckley, and his mother, Patricia Buckley. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.Media Platforms Design Team All in the Family: A 13-year-old Christopher Buckley with his father, political writer William F. 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. 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. In bestselling author Christopher Buckleys hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at. 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. About the Author 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.

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