supreme courtship by christopher buckley

#Supreme courtship by christopher buckley tv#

Now, among his relics were a nail from the Crucifixion and the lance of Longinus-that’s the tip of the lance that the Roman soldier lanced Jesus’ side with at the end of the Crucifixion to finish him off. This was an educated, smart, and good man who just had a passion for collecting relics. “Here’s this guy Frederick of Saxony, the guy with this collection of 19,000 relics.

One, who killed Kennedy? And are UFOs real?”‘ And I thought, wow, you know, this is the president of the United States.”Ĭhristopher Buckley on Frederick the Wise: And the quote goes something like this, he said, ‘When Bill Clinton became president, he pulled me into his office and he said to me, “Web”-or maybe he called him Hubb-”there’s two things I want you to find out for me. It was a quote from a guy named Webster Hubble, and some of your diligent older listeners may remember him as the number two attorney general in the first Clinton-Bill Clinton-administration. … The second epigraph was from a story in USA Today. “I am not a believer myself in UFOs, but it fascinates me that many Americans are. And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Listen to our complete interview with Christopher Buckley in Episode 190 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). So that wasn’t exactly a kinder and gentler time.” “Newspaper columnists called him a baboon. “You can go back and read things that were said about Abraham Lincoln,” he says. His new book does make clear that, however nasty and absurd contemporary politics may seem, the past was no improvement. “Every fact that I adduce in the book about the church at the time is historically based.” “The book is not an anti-religious book,” he says. Buckley insists that his book is not about axe-grinding, but rather about exploring colorful characters who live in interesting times.

The story is set in the 16th century, when Pope Leo X, a member of the de Medici crime family, spent the church into bankruptcy in order to indulge his sinful pleasures, conduct that enraged Martin Luther and led directly to the Protestant Reformation. The Relic Master, about a madcap scheme by Albrecht Dürer to forge the Shroud of Turin, certainly paints the Catholic church in an unflattering light. “I’ve had some very angry letters from the monks at Portsmouth Abbey, where I spent four years at boarding school, who are furious with me about the book,” he says. And while The Relic Master does involve a change of scenery, the biting humor from Buckley’s previous books remains the same. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.He says that in the age of Donald Trump, it’s impossible to dream up anything more exaggerated than reality, whereas Renaissance Europe offered a fresh new playground to explore. Will Pepper, a vivacious Texan, survive a Senate confirmation battle? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? 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. 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 nerve to reject her-Judge Pepper Cartwright, star of the nation's most popular reality show. President Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees onto the Supreme Court.

#Supreme courtship by christopher buckley tv#

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 TV judge to the Supreme Court.