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Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. New York Timesman Drury's novel about politicking in Washington is sometimes as heavy as a Times thinkpiece, but it provides a dandy guessing game: Taft, Khrishna Menon and Truman are recognizable, but who, for instance, is the high-positioned skirt-chaser...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (4) 6. Advise and Consent, Drury...
ADVISE AND CONSENT (616 pp.)-Allen Drury-Doubleday...
...politicians that they could not and should not dare take a crack at a political novel. No novelist, but a knowing man on the subject of politicians, Allen Drury, U.S. Senate correspondent for the New York Times, thus stepped into a near vacuum in U.S. letters. His Advise and Consent is the August Book-of-the-Month Club choice, and Author Drury thought he could afford to be adamant when the B.O.M. asked him to cut his great prose pudding. So it comes to the reader with all its fat intact, but no one really interested in the workings...
...years before? Can the obstinate President be persuaded by men who love their country above party that the nomination should be withdrawn?. When Senator Brigham Anderson of Utah, whose subcommittee is holding the hearings, discovers that Leffingwell has indeed lied about his past, it would seem that Advise and Consent has already gone on too long with echoes from a decade of news headlines. But Author Drury now shows how vindictive his challenged President can be, and how vicious a Senator touched by envy, spite or just the power bug. Utah's Brigham Anderson is himself vulnerable, and when...