![]() ![]() Advise and Consent is a timeless story with clear echoes of today’s headlines. This novel is a true epic showing in fascinating detail the minds and motives of the statesmen, the opportunists, the idealists.įrom a Senate old-timer’s wily maneuvers, a vicious demagogue’s blistering smear campaign, the ugly personal jealousies that turn a highly qualified candidate into a public spectacle, to the tragic martyrdom of a presidential aspirant who refuses to sacrifice his principles for his career-never has there been a more revealing picture of Washington’s intricate political, diplomatic, and social worlds. ![]() A #1 New York Times bestseller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and “one of the finest and most gripping political novels of our era” ( The New York Times).Īllen Drury’s Advise and Consent is one of the high points of twentieth-century literature, a seminal work of political fiction by a Washington DC insider that is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1959.ĭrury has penetrated the world’s stormiest political battleground-the smoke-filled committee rooms of the United States Senate-to reveal the bitter conflicts set in motion when the President calls upon the Senate to confirm his controversial choice for Secretary of State. ![]()
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