DISSENT: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court

Calmes, Jackie.

ISBN 10: 1538700794 / ISBN 13: 9781538700792

Published by Twelve, New York & Boston, 2021

About this Item

First printing. A book which focuses on the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court - but also looks at it as part of a larger story of the Republican Party's move to the right. Illustrated with full color photographs. Notes, index. xv, 477 pp. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (a few corners creased).

Seller Inventory # 88455

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DISSENT: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court
• Publisher: Twelve, New York & Boston
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538700794
• ISBN 13: 9781538700792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: NEAR FINE
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • History: USA

About this title

Synopsis

Featuring new interviews with his accusers and overlooked evidence of his deceptions, a deeply reported account of the life and confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, set against the conservative movement's capture of the courts.

In DISSENT, award-winning investigative journalist Jackie Calmes brings readers closer to the truth of who Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is, where he came from, and how he and the Republican party at large managed to secure one of the highest seats of power in the land.

Kavanaugh's rise to the justice who solidified conservative control of the supreme court is a story of personal achievement, but also a larger, political tale: of the Republican Party's movement over four decades toward the far right, and its parallel campaign to dominate the government's judicial branch as well as the other two.

And Kavanaugh uniquely personifies this history. Fourteen years before reaching the Supreme Court, during a three-year fight for a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin would say to Kavanaugh, "It seems that you are the Zelig or Forrest Gump of Republican politics. You show up at every scene of the crime."

Featuring revelatory new reporting and exclusive interviews, DISSENT is a harrowing look into the highest echelons of political power in the United States, and a captivating survey of the people who will do anything to have it.

About the Author

Jackie Calmes has been a journalist in Washington for nearly four decades. She is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, based in Washington and writing on national politics and issues. She was a White House correspondent for the New York Times during the Obama administration as well as a national politics reporter and chief economic correspondent. During eighteen years at the Wall Street Journal, she covered Congress and the White House and ultimately became the chief political correspondent. She first worked in Washington as a reporter for Congressional Quarterly. A native of Ohio, she began her career in Texas, where she covered state government and politics from Austin for the Dallas Morning News and, before that, for the Harte-Hanks newspaper chain.