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Advise and Consent

Allen Drury

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#457 of 8,085 books · #117 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1960).

Advise and Consent won the Pulitzer Prize and was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Allen Drury's Advise and Consent penetrates 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. This novel is a true epic showing in fascinating detail the minds and motives of the statesmen, the opportunists, the idealists. From 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. The edition includes Allen Drury's never-before-published original preface to Advise and Consent, his essay for the Hoover Institution on the writing of the book, as well as poignant personal memoirs from Drury's heirs.

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Publisher
WordFire +ORM
ISBN-13
9781614750796
Topics
Politics and governmentPower and corruptionMoral integrity vs ambition

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