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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.

ISBN-13: 9781538700792

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Publication Date: 06-15-2021

Pages: 496

Product Dimensions: 5.60(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Prologue

Chapter 1 The Early Years 7

Chapter 2 From Watergate's Ruins to Reagan's Revolution 20

Chapter 3 The Yak Years and Onward 34

Chapter 4 Supreme Battles: Bork and Thomas 53

Chapter 5 Gingrich, Starr, and a Partisan Baptism 73

Chapter 6 Becoming a "Bushie" 97

Chapter 7 The Judge Avoids a Tea Party 122

Chapter 8 Nuclear War and a Supreme Steal 137

Chapter 9 The Lure of a List 157

Chapter 10 The Model Nominee 171

Chapter 11 One Woman's Civic Duty 188

Chapter 12 Questions of Credibility 214

Chapter 13 A Leak, and a Leap 233

Chapter 14 A Classmate's Secret, Revealed 247

Chapter 15 She Said … 276

Chapter 16 … He Said 293

Chapter 17 The "Investigation" That Wasn't 317

Chapter 18 Confirmation 347

Chapter 19 Justice Kavanaugh 368

Epilogue: Minority Rule 394

Acknowledgments 417

Notes 420

Index 462

About the Author 478