false 201651 12 Christopher Buckley is not so much a novelist as a free-ranging satirist looking for targets. In <I>Thank You for Smoking</I> it was big tobacco and earnest reformers; in <I>God Is My Broker</I> it was business and religion; and in <I>No Way to Treat a First Lady</I>, it's the entire legal profession, not to mention the Washington establishment. The novel opens with the President of the United States returning to the conjugal bed after an illicit Lincoln Bedroom romp with the Streisandesque Babette Van Anka. His wife, the long-suffering Beth McMann, promptly clocks him with a Paul Revere spittoon. Several hours later he dies. "Lady Bethmac," as the First Lady is immediately dubbed by the media, is put on trial, and the resulting media circus gives Buckley lots of opportunity for nicely observed skewerings of legal culture. "Judge Dutch creaked forward in his chair. This is the source of the aura of judges: they have bigger chairs than anyone else. That and the fact that they can sentence people to sit in electrified ones. It's all about chairs." He gets in some neat neologisms--a lawyer performs a "credibilobotomy" on a witness--and sends up the pretensions of law TV: at a roundtable discussion, the guest from Harvard Law is invited "to provide gravitas and to shift uneasily in his seat when the other guests said something provocative." Buckley's Trial of the Millennium is so far-fetched that it seems entirely possible. <I>--Claire Dederer</I> 2330989 book 2002 No Way to Treat a First Lady: A Novel total:682|5:99|4:271|3:260|2:42|1:10| 682 2453 888 100 3 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 23:39:24 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 21:40:49 -0700 2009 setelah baca cerita detektif yang sebelumnya mengecewakan sebenernya agak skeptis untuk mulai lg.. but the cover is kindda tempting as well as the tittle, so i began reading it..

ternyata ceritanya sangat segar,
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Inti ceritanya mengenai presiden negri adi daya yang ditemukan telah tak bernyawa di tempat tidurnya. Dan segera saja sang ibu negara menjadi tersangka. Rupanya sebelumnya suami istri ini sedang bertengkar yang ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 09:03:12 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 09:08:03 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 16:50:28 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 06:43:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 10:45:10 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 17 07:54:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 12 12:14:58 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 14:26:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 23:25:53 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 09:31:47 -0700 2009
It made me wonder what other inside jokes I missed, because I don't know Washingto...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 11:02:52 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 11:06:03 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Oct 26 15:45:54 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 15:51:00 -0700 2008 1
First Buckley I read during spring break in florida 2008. Since reading it I've read all the Buckley I can get my hands on

What I learned?

I was reminded that politicians are self-seekers like the rest of us, not to be taken too seriou...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 27 03:13:51 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 03:17:20 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 14:06:34 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 09:22:33 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 17:19:27 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 09:48:34 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 17 13:42:32 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 13:43:39 -0800 2009 F A First Lady is accused of killing her philandering husband. A slimy lawyer tries to help her. A typically quirky and funny book by the son of William F. Buckley.]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 06 10:39:19 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 10:41:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jan 02 11:08:36 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 11:10:18 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 13:10:37 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 13:11:19 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=201651