Forty years on, Advise and Consent is the only book of this genre that a literary-minded person really ought to read.' The novel was adapted into the 1962 film Advise and Consent, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Walter Pidgeon and Henry Fonda. The use of a racy intrigue, if possible involving both sex and foreign policy, is what characterizes the contemporary form. The Saturday Review said of Advise and Consent in August 1959 that 'It may be a long time before a better one comes along.' Roger Kaplan of Policy Review wrote in 1999 that the novel 'in many ways invented a genre in fiction. A very nice association, uncommon in the first edition and signed. He remembers reading Advise and Consent as a young man in. The film is modeled after a novel by Allen Drury, whose. An excellent example with some toning and rubbing in a very good first issue dust jacket with the $5.75 price and Doubleday imprint on the spine. Ward Just, widely viewed as todays foremost practitioner of the Washington novel, agrees. Capable of Honor, the third novel in the grand, bestselling Advise and Consent saga, is a compelling blockbuster that shines a harsh and revealing spotlight on. The role of a Southern senator was offered to Martin Luther King Jr., but he respectfully declined.

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While in the Senate, Clark earned a reputation as a strong supporter of civil rights and congressional reform. He previously served as the 116th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1956. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1969. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'For Senator Clark with best regards Allen Drury.' The recipient Joseph S. A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition cuts across the landscape of Washington, DC, with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Allen Drurys Advise and Consent 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.

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