Advise & Consent
Allen DruryAllen Drury 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. This novel is a true epic showing in fascinating detail the minds and motives of the statesmen, the opportunists, and the idealists.
"A book that will enthral, fascinate, repel, puzzle and intrigue its readers. And many will read it that are ordinarily profoundly bored with its subject- what goes on behind the scenes in our nation's capital. Informed it certainly is. One feels that its author has been in on all the conferences, the deals, the private and public conferences, the cocktail parties, and the state functions that make up its component parts. That he knows what makes men tick... The book is overlong; drastic cutting would have sharpened its fangs. But the end impression is that a powerful new writer, who can use the political arena as his theatre, has been introduced" - Kirkus Reviews