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...congress of the Hawaiian People, a collective of several political action groups, charged that American revolutionaries, led by Yale graduates Sanford B. Dole and Lorrin A. Thurston, took lands without Hawaiilan consent...
Long ago, in the sane dull Washington of 1958, Journalist Allen Drury wrote his first novel-the one for which he is remembered-Advise and Consent. That was a blowsy, likable, jump-all-over-you book, about a Senate battle against confirmation of a Secretary of State; about a band of stalwart lawmakers, including one Senator being blackmailed for homosexuality; about a society hostess, and so on. It made a great read. It won Drury the Pulitzer Prize, which he even perhaps deserved: he had had the energy to people a big novel with a lot of boldly drawn characters...
Then history began to play tricks on Allen Drury. The U-2 incident and Khrushchev banging his shoe. First moves into Viet Nam. Civil rights in the South. In the 1962 sequel to Advise and Consent, Drury tried to keep up. He escalated his story into a counterinsurgency war in Central Africa, coupled with radical attempts to exploit racial strife in the U.S. He also moved his senatorial heroes into the still windier forum of the United Nations. But these days no writer should play "Can You Top This?" with history...
Come Nineveh, Come Tyre is the fifth and penultimate novel in what the author calls the Advise and Consent series. Escalation has continued. Nothing less than the destruction of the American republic, and its transformation into a totalitarian dictatorship, is this book's story. It includes the assassination of a presidential candidate, the suicides of a President and a Vice President, and an incipient bloodless takeover of the U.S. by Russia. Drury's political principles have hardened into sclerotic pieties. Few would argue that the Soviet Union could never be tempted into acting out her ancient ambitions...
Compounding the President's troubles, Congress had passed a law forbidding such a removal without the consent of the Senate. Because the Senate had not consented, Stanton refused to give up his office. But the President would not back off, confident that the Supreme Court would find Congress' firing restriction unconstitutional. Before any high-court determination, however, the House voted eleven articles of impeachment. With the Senate sitting as a trial court and presided over by the Chief Justice, the charges were prosecuted by the "managers" from the House, one of whom elegantly defined an impeachable...