Advise and Consent, Allen Drury
Advise and Consent, Allen Drury
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Advise and Consent

Author: Allen Drury

Narrator: Allan Robertson

Unabridged: 33 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lantern Audio

Published: 04/15/2015


Synopsis

Allen 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, 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. Advise and Consent is a timeless story with clear echoes of today's headlines.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alexw on February 06, 2017

Lets see- a controversial appointment to Secretary of State is voted on by the Senate-seems I have heard that somewhere before-LOL Dialogue was brilliant which is how I judge most books- well deserving of the Pulitzer it won and was based on a Wyoming US Senator who shot himself after his son was cau......more

Goodreads review by Werner on April 22, 2015

Allen Drury was, for some years, the U.S. Senate correspondent for United Press International. This gave him a deep background of inside knowledge about the Senate, the Washington press corps, and the larger national and international political contexts of that day (this was published in 1959) in wh......more

Goodreads review by Judy on November 06, 2011

One of the burdens of My Big Fat Reading Project (see the Writing page on my profile) is slogging my way through long tomes like Advise and Consent. It was the #4 bestseller in 1959 and went on to be the #1 bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1960. The New York Times Book Review stated, "Advise......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 16, 2022

For those who loved The West Wing or House of Cards, this book should be high on your to-be-read list. Drury treats us to the first of a long series (6 books!) of political intrigue based on suppositions of a 'what if' based on a contentious Senate vote to confirm a presidential nominee - the presid......more

Goodreads review by Douglas on August 21, 2016

I read this book one other time, many decades ago, probably in high school or when I was in the Navy. All I remembered about it was that I had read it once, and that it was a political novel about a Senate confirmation battle in Washington, which could be guessed from the title. Well, I read it agai......more