Advise and Consent

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The #1<em> New York Times</em> bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Allen Drury's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Advise and Consent</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is one of the high points of 20th Century literature a seminal work of political fiction-as relevant today as when it was first published. A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition cuts across the landscape of Washington DC with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer and insider can convey.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Advise and Consent</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a timeless story with clear echoes of today's headlines.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Includes Allen Drury's never-before-published original preface to </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Advise and Consent</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> his essay for the Hoover Institution on the writing of the book as well as poignant personal memoirs from Drury's heirs.</span></p>