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Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. New York Timesman Drury's novel about politicking in Washington is sometimes as heavy as a Times thinkpiece, but it provides a dandy guessing game: Taft, Khrishna Menon and Truman are recognizable, but who, for instance, is the high-positioned skirt-chaser?
5. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (4) 6. Advise and Consent, Drury
ADVISE AND CONSENT (616 pp.)-Allen Drury-Doubleday ($5.75).
Most novelists know so little about real-life politicians that they could not and should not dare take a crack at a political novel. No novelist, but a knowing man on the subject of politicians, Allen Drury, U.S. Senate correspondent for the New York Times, thus stepped into a near...
Headline Echoes. Will the opposition members take the scalp of an able man who committed an indiscretion 14 years before? Can the obstinate President be persuaded by men who love their country above party that the nomination should be withdrawn?. When Senator Brigham Anderson of Utah, whose subcommittee is holding...