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Protect and defend [a novel]

The president's nominee for chief justice of the Supreme Court faces not only Senate opposition but her own secrets as well.

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  • "Protect & defend"
  • "Protect and defend"@it
  • "Protect and defend"
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  • "A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice has a long-held personal secret and the prospect of a volatile abortion case will come before the court."
  • "The death of the Chief Justice and the desire of a young girl to have a late-term abortion over her parents' objections cause difficulties for the new president."
  • "The president's nominee for chief justice of the Supreme Court faces not only Senate opposition but her own secrets as well."@en
  • "In Washington, the newly elected young President, Kerry Kilcannon, faces his first test: the sudden death of the Chief Justice of the United States has created a vacancy at the heart of a sharply divided Supreme Court. In San Francisco, an unknown 15-year-old girl, Mary Ann Tierney, wants to sue for permission to have a late-term abortion over the opposition of her pre-life parents. President Kilcannon resolves to nominate Caroline Masters- a brilliant jurist shadowed by a personal secret- as the next Chief Justice."@en
  • "A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case--a trial pitting a 15-year-old girl against her pro-life parents--will come before the court. And, the Senate majority leader is determined to thwart the president's nominations for reasons that cross the boundary between the political and the personal."@en
  • "When the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court drops dead following the inauguration, President Kerry Kilcannon selects as a replacement Judge Caroline Masters, a woman who hides a secret that could affect her ruling on a controversial case."
  • "When the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court drops dead following the inauguration, President Kerry Kilcannon selects as a replacement Judge Caroline Masters, a woman who hides a secret that could affect her ruling on a controversial case."@en
  • "Mary Ann Tierney, aged 15, takes on her own parents and US constitutional law in a bid to protect her future right to bear children. This story plays out the consequences when the media takes peoples' private lives and turns them into public entertainment."@en
  • "When the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court drops dead immediately following the inauguration, President Kerry Kilcannon finds the first order of business is to find a replacement, settling on Judge Caroline Masters, a woman who hides the career-damaging secret of an illegitimate child, a secret that could affect her ruling on a controversial case."@en
  • "In Washington, the new-elected young President, Kerry Kilcannon, faces his first tests; the sudden death of the Chief Justice of the United States and a nationally televised lawsuit which thrusts the issue of abortion to the forefront of the Senate."@en
  • "A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case -- a trial pitting a 15-year-old girl against her pro-life parents -- will come before the court. And, the Senate majority leader is determined to thwart the president's nominations for reasons that cross the boundary between the political and the personal. These intertwined stories give us the clash of competing political ambitions; the collision of science and culture in the courtroom; and a revelation of both how the judicial system works and how it intersects with politics."@en
  • "This is a novel of passion and politics."
  • "On a cold day in January, President-elect Kerry Kilcannon takes the oath of the office- and within days makes his first, most important decision: appointing a new cheif justice of the Supreme Court. Kilcannon's choice is a female judge with a brilliant record. And a secret."@en
  • "A President is caught in the middle of a political crisis involving the abortion issue and his choice for chief justice of the United States."
  • "A newly-elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court, but the nomination faces serious obstacles, both on personal and political levels."@en
  • "A fifteen-year-old girl suing for permission to obtain a late-term abortion over the objections of her parents becomes the center of a huge legal and political battle."@en

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  • "Talking books"@en
  • "American fiction"
  • "Legal stories"@es
  • "Legal stories"@en
  • "Legal stories"
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Political fiction"@es
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  • "Political fiction"
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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Americké romány"
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  • "Chiamato a difendere : romanzo"@it
  • "Chiamato a difendere : romanzo"
  • "Protect and defend [a novel]"
  • "Protect and defend [a novel]"@en
  • "Eine Frage der Ehre Roman"
  • "Protect and Defend"@en
  • "Protect and Defend"
  • "El Dilema"
  • "Protect and defend a novel"
  • "Protect and defend a novel"@en
  • "Protect and defend unabridged"
  • "Ochraňuj a braň"
  • "El dilema"
  • "El dilema"@es
  • "L'affaire Tierney : roman"
  • "Protect and defend"
  • "Protect and defend"@en
  • "Protect and defend : a novel"
  • "Protect and defend : a novel"@en
  • "Eine Frage der Ehre : Roman"
  • "Chiamato a difendere"
  • "Chiamato a difendere"@it
  • "L'affaire Tierney"

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