A review by verumsolum
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

5.0

I am somewhat surprised that I enjoyed my reading of this book as much as I did. I first found this book in a small remote library, the summer between high school and college, and loved it. I may have read it once more between then and now, but I am not certain. But a lot has happened in my life (and in politics) in the 30 years since I first read it (let alone what's happened in politics in the 40 years between this book's writing and the first time I read it).

Drury has done a good job of shedding many labels that might distract the reader into making comparisons between his characters and their non-fictional counterparts. And as a result, I was able to fall into its world without (too many) comparisons to the present-day figures in Washington. (That also meant that the book did not remind me of contemporary political… personalities, controversies, and injustices as often as I feared it might.)

I will definitely be continuing to reread this series.