Senate's staff, from 1943-1945, became editor of Pathfinder magazine in 1947, then joined the Washington Evening Star in 1953, The New York Times from 1954-1959, and finally Reader's Digest from '59-62. With the exception of some details surrounding his writing career, I have been unable to find any information about Drury not available on his Wikipedia page.) He worked for United Press International, as a member of the U.S. (I have been unable to find details of his military service.
In 1939, Drury graduated from Stanford and began working as a reporter from the Tulare Bee where he received recognition for his editorial writing, and then spent a year working for the Bakersfield Californian. He was descended multiple members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, most notably Edmund Rice, who immigrated to the colony in 1638. These six novels in the Advise and Consent series follow his political cast of characters through epic worldwide struggles.Allen Drury (1918-1998) was born in Houston, but grew up in Porterville, in Tulare County in central California. His works are true epics showing in fascinating detail the minds and motives of the statesmen, the opportunists, the idealists. In his novels, Allen Drury penetrates the world’s stormiest political battleground-the smoke-filled committee rooms of the United States Senate-to reveal the bitter conflicts and controversial politics when opposing parties struggle for power, by any means necessary. A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition that cuts across the landscape of Washington, DC, with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer and insider can convey. A seminal work of political fiction, it is as relevant today as when it was first published.
The original novel, Advise and Consent, is one of the high points of 20th Century literature, #1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner. This boxed set contains all six bestselling novels in Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent series, a masterwork of politics and human nature that spanned sixteen years of the author’s career.
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