Allen Drury

Allen Drury (1918-1998) was an anti-communist newspaper reporter in the U.S. Senate, who wrote the finest political novel ever: Advise and Consent (1959). It is about the confirmation process for a controversial nominee to become Secretary of State. This novel has it all and is considered one of the greatest American works in all of fiction.

The book enjoyed fabulous success and widespread critical acclaim. It became both a Broadway play and a movie starring Henry Fonda.

However, some liberals gave the book a scathing review because of its conservative message.

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Literature

American Authors|

Herman Melville • Mark Twain • Edgar Allen Poe • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Washington Irving • Emily Dickinson • Willa Cather • Langston Hughes • Ernest Hemingway • William Faulkner • Harper Lee • Joseph Heller • Allen Drury

British Authors|

Geoffrey Chaucer • William Shakespeare • Christopher Marlowe • John Dryden • John Milton • Charles Dickens • Jane Austen • Arthur Conan Doyle • Agatha Christie

World Authors|

Solomon • Homer • Aesop • Aeschylus • Euripides • Virgil • Confucius • Dante • Niccolò Machiavelli • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Leo Tolstoy • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Victor Hugo

Great Works|

Epic of Gilgamesh • The Odyssey • Medea • Mahabharata • Aeneid • Analects • Arabian Nights • Divine Comedy • Romance of the Three Kingdoms • Romeo and Juliet • Paradise Lost • Faust • Les Miserables • A Tale of Two Cities • The Old Man and the Sea