Advise and Consent

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

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

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

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

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