Day #4 of the 30 Day Book Challenge
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shadowkatI'm skipping days. Sort of scaling back my computer usage and internet posting. Also switching up the meme. Changing categories etc.
The prompt for Day 4 is:
A fictional novel about politics or features a political theme
[I'm making it harder - non-fictional novels about politics are easy, but finding fictional ones is somewhat harder, I think.]
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury - which I read my senior year of high school for an American Government course.
I think I also saw the film, but I remember the book slightly better.
Advise and Consent is a 1959 political fiction novel by Allen Drury that explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell, whose promotion is endangered due to growing evidence—explored in the novel—that the nominee was a member of the Communist Party. The chief characters' responses to the evidence, and their efforts to spread or suppress it, form the basis of the novel.
It was adapted into a film in the 1960s. And won the Pulitzer Prize.
My mother read the book when she was in high school and college, and was deeply affected by it. So persuaded me to read it - I read her copy. It wasn't the first one or the last she'd recommend.
The prompt for Day 4 is:
A fictional novel about politics or features a political theme
[I'm making it harder - non-fictional novels about politics are easy, but finding fictional ones is somewhat harder, I think.]
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury - which I read my senior year of high school for an American Government course.
I think I also saw the film, but I remember the book slightly better.
Advise and Consent is a 1959 political fiction novel by Allen Drury that explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell, whose promotion is endangered due to growing evidence—explored in the novel—that the nominee was a member of the Communist Party. The chief characters' responses to the evidence, and their efforts to spread or suppress it, form the basis of the novel.
It was adapted into a film in the 1960s. And won the Pulitzer Prize.
My mother read the book when she was in high school and college, and was deeply affected by it. So persuaded me to read it - I read her copy. It wasn't the first one or the last she'd recommend.
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