I came back twenty years later, finally.” įrom 1943-45, Drury worked as the United States Senate correspondent for United Press which, as he wrote, gave him the opportunity “to be of some slight assistance in making my fellow countrymen better acquainted with their Congress and particularly their Senate.” He worked as a reporter, but also kept a journal in which he recorded the events of Congress as well as his impressions and views of individual senators and the Senate itself. “I went East and wound up in Washington, which fascinated me, and I thought I would get a job for about a year for experience before coming back to the coast. He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. WordFire Press will be reissuing the majority of his works.Allen Stuart Drury was an American novelist. He published twenty novels and five works of non-fiction, many of them best sellers.

After the success of ADVISE AND CONSENT, he left journalism to write full time. After the war he wrote for other prominent publications before joining the New York Times Washington Bureau, where he worked through most of the 1950s. While visiting Washington, DC, in 1943 he was hired by the United Press (UPI) and covered the Senate during the latter half of World War II. A 1939 graduate of Stanford University, Allen Drury wrote for and became editor of two local California newspapers. About the Author Allen Drury is a master of political fiction, #1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner, best known for the landmark novel ADVISE AND CONSENT. Ted Jason has been thrust into this position of power-is he up to the challenge of leadership in such a time of crisis? Or will he bend too far toward appeasement, at the cost of freedom around the world? Looking at the stakes for the United States against the backdrop of war, politics, and scandal, President Jason must play winner-take-all in this game of politics.

In Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, China and the Soviet Union are waiting and watching for any sign of weakness from the untried Ted Jason, survivor of the assassination attempt that took the life of Orrin Knox and catapulted him into the Presidency. After an assassins bullet rings out, we are left to wonder who was killed-the Liberal Vice President Ted Jason, or staunch Conservative Presidential Candidate Orrin Knox? The answer to that question was so large that Pulitzer-Prize winner Drury had to write two novels, one exploring the full ramifications of each outcome. At the end of the previous novel, Preserve and Protect, Allen Drury left his readers with one of the greatest cliffhangers of all time.

Book Synopsis The Advise and Consent series is a landmark of political fiction, displaying a depth of insider Washington knowledge and a canvas of compelling characters that catapulted each novel to the top of the bestseller lists.

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