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 is the White House editor for the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau. Calmes joined the LA Times from the New York Times Washington bureau, where she was a chief economics correspondent covering the global financial crisis, White House correspondent, and national politics reporter. She was at the New York Times from August 2008 to 2017. Previously she had been chief political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau.


Book Information
ISBN 9781538700792
Author Jackie Calmes
Format Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint Twelve
Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Weight(grams) 720g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 44mm