![]() ![]() They belong to opposing wings of the same party and disagree on most things, and specifically, in this case, the president’s nomination of one Robert A. The plot of Advise and Consent revolves around a showdown between the president of the United States and the senior senator from South Carolina, the memorable Seabright Cooley. Indeed, as Saturday Review noted in August 1959, "It may be a long time before a better one comes along." Forty years so far. Forty years on, Advise and Consent is the only book of this genre that a literary-minded person really ought to read. But the use of a racy intrigue, if possible involving both sex and foreign policy, is what characterizes the contemporary form. ![]() Henry Adams and John Dos Passos had written novels on politics in Washington. ![]() W HEN ALLEN DRURY DIED LAS YEAR on his 80th birthday, the thoughts of editors and obituary writers naturally turned to Advise and Consent, the book that made him famous, that gave a memorable last film role to Charles Laughton, and that in many ways invented a genre in fiction. ![]()
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