![]() ![]() Literature 1959: Drury Sets a Novel of Political Intrigue in Washington, D.C. United States 1959: Drury Sets a Novel of Political Intrigue in Washington, D.C. (1959) Novel of Political Intrigue in Washington, D.C., Drury Sets a (1959) Political Intrigue in Washington, D.C., Drury Sets a Novel of (1959) Washington, D.C., Drury Sets a Novel of Political Intrigue in (1959) Advise and Consent (Drury) North America 1959: Drury Sets a Novel of Political Intrigue in Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() Advise and Consent (Drury) Drury Sets a Novel of Political Intrigue in Washington, D.C. Drury’s mix of salacious secret conspiracy and minute analysis of procedure inspired many subsequent works about Washington politics, including five more novels by Drury with many of the same characters. ![]() Only the third major American novel to be set in Washington, D.C., the book won the Pulitzer Prize for literature Pulitzer Prizes literature in 1960 and was a runaway best seller it was adapted Motion-picture adaptations Advise and Consent for a 1962 film of the same name directed by Otto Preminger Preminger, Otto. In 1959, Allen Drury, a longtime congressional reporter for The New York Times, published Advise and Consent, a novel about the inner workings of the U.S. Senate, set the pattern for the modern political novel. Its mix of scandal and intrigue, along with its close examination of the inner workings of the U.S. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Advise and Consent was the first major novel of the twentieth century to be set in Washington, D.C. ![]()
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