Advise and Consent

It is with pride that we present this extraordinary novel of politics and complex in its conception that each segment alone would make an enthralling book. here, in Advice and Consent, Allen Drury has penetrated the world's stormiest political background — the smoke-filled committee rooms of the United States Senate — to reveal the bitter conflicts set in motion when the President called upon the Senate to confirm his controversial choice for Secretary of State. Here, he has probed in fascinating detail, the minds and motives of the statesmen, the opportunists, the old-fashioned idealists of present-day Washington — their public and private "faces," their driving ambitions, their vanities, their hopes, their fears, set against the ominous background of steadily mounting crisis with Russia.

A Senate old-timer's wily maneuvers, a vicious demagogue's blistering smear campaign, the ugly personal jealousies which turned a highly qualified candidate into a public spectacle, the tragic martyrdom of a presidential aspirant who refused to sacrifice his principles for his career — never has there been a more revealing picture of Washington's intricate political, diplomatic, and social worlds.