Advise and Consent

Advise and Consent
First edition
AuthorAllen Drury
LanguageEnglish
SeriesAdvise and Consent
GenrePolitical novel
PublishedAugust 11, 1959[1]
PublisherDoubleday
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback) & Audio Book (Cassette)
Pages616 pages
ISBN0-385-05419-X
Followed byA Shade of Difference 

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, and their efforts to spread or suppress it, form the basis of the novel.

The novel spent 102 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960 and was adapted into a successful 1962 film starring Henry Fonda.[2][3][4][5] It was followed by Drury's A Shade of Difference in 1962, and four additional sequels.[6]

  1. ^ "Advise and Consent (advertisement)". The New York Times: 20. August 11, 1959. Published Today!
  2. ^ Simon, Scott (September 2, 2009). "At 50, a D.C. Novel With Legs". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  3. ^ Kemme, Tom (1987). Political Fiction, the Spirit of the Age, and Allen Drury. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. p. 242.
  4. ^ Simon, Phil (May 28, 2014). "Classic Politics: The Works of Allen Drury Now Back in Print". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  5. ^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction (1948-present)". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  6. ^ Smith, Dinitia (September 3, 1998). "Allen Drury, 80, Novelist; Wrote Advise and Consent (Obituary)". The New York Times. Retrieved January 19, 2015.