In honor of the upcoming presidential elections, I thought I'd remind people of some of the great political novels the library has. As I was looking for titles to highlight, one novel kept coming up over and over: ADVISE AND CONSENT by Allen Drury. Written in 1959, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the next year and has been called one of the greatest novels about politics in Washington D.C. ever written. It tells the story of a U.S. president naming a new Secretary of State to deal with the U.S.S.R. and the nomination process that follows. As the hearings proceed, the reader has an insider's view of D.C. It's a definite page-turner.
The library also has the movie version on dvd. It's directed by Otto Preminger and has an all-star cast, including Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton and Gene Tierney.
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