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Advise and Consent is a 1959 political fiction novel by Allen Drury that explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell, whose promotion is endangered due to growing evidence that the nominee had been a member of the Communist Party. The chief characters' responses to the evidence ...
Advise & Consent is a 1962 American political drama film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Advise and Consent by Allen Drury, published in 1959. [2] The film was adapted for the screen by Wendell Mayes and was directed by Otto Preminger .
A Shade of Difference (ISBN 0-385-02389-8) is a 1962 political novel written by Allen Drury.It is the first sequel to Advise and Consent, for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960, [2] and was followed in 1966 by Capable of Honor.
Many stories read as if written by a Henry James imitator with a bad hangover. Incomprehensible English was accepted as evidence of the honest, if inarticulate, reporter; plain English bothered people. [7] In his spare time, Drury wrote the novel which would become 1959's Advise and Consent. [1]
In the novel, Harley Hudson, the affable but seemingly inept vice president from Advise and Consent, is now president and seeking a term of his own against a backdrop of Soviet-instigated war, as the Soviet Union backs rebel governments in Panama and in the fictitious oil-rich African republic of Gorotoland. Hudson responds with U.S. troops in ...
Published in June 1968, Preserve and Protect is the third sequel to Advise and Consent, for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. [1] Advise and Consent and its sequels had been out of print for almost 15 years until WordFire Press reissued them in paperback and e-book format in 2014.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, known as the Appointments Clause, empowers the President of the United States to nominate and, with the confirmation (advice and consent) of the United States Senate, appoint public officials, including justices of the Supreme Court.
Later Drury books in the same timeline are The Hill of Summer (1981) and The Roads of Earth (1984), a two-part series dealing with a major crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union. Drury's 1977 novel Anna Hastings is also set in the same timeline, with its title character Anna appearing in a supporting role in The Hill of Summer ...