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Аллен Друри - автор 4 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Advise and Consent, Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, Pentagon. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
ADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally recognized as THE Washington novel. It begins with Senate confirmation hearings for a liberal Secretary of State and concludes two weeks later, after debate and controversy have exploded this issue into a major crisis. "I can recall no other novel in which there is so well presented a president's dile...
The idea behind Drury's 16th novel is promising: follow the actions taken by the American military bureaucracy when faced with a crisis. In this case, the crisis is the Russian occupation of a sparsely inhabited South Pacific island for the purpose of building a submarine and missile base. However, the book's merit ends with that concept. It is difficult to believe that the writer of Adv...
Preserve and Protect is a 1968 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the third sequel to Advise and Consent, for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960,[1] and is followed by two alternate sequels of its own, Come Nineveh, Come Tyre (1973) and The Promise of Joy (1975)
In his most terrifying political novel ever, Allen Drury sketches a future for America that is both frighteningly cataclysmic and disturbingly logical.
