![]() ![]() Titles include three volumes seen as companions to "Advise and Consent." "A Shade of Difference" dealt with foreign perceptions of American racism. None gained the success of the first, but all sold well. He completed a series of similar books about Washington's convoluted ways of dealing with political and foreign policy issues. ![]() ![]() Drury's earnings from "Advise and Consent" were enough for him to stop working as a reporter. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960, and was made into a moderately successful film with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton in 1962. with factual data absorbed while covering the Senate." Drury spent seven years writing the book, making it a long novel with a simple plot and a conservative tinge, in which liberals ruin a right-wing senator with insinuations of homosexuality, among other narrative elements.Īt the time, the novel was described by Chronicle book critic William Hogan as "packed. His experience covering the nation's capital contributed to the success of "Advise and Consent." Mr. He served in the Army in 1942- 43 and then left to work for United Press.įrom 1954 to 1959, he was a Washington reporter for the New York Times. ![]() He then joined the Bakersfield Californian. With experience on the Stanford Daily, he was hired by the Tulare Bee, a weekly, where he worked until 1941. He graduated from high school in Porterville and earned a journalism degree at Stanford University in 1939. He was born in Houston, and was brought to California as a child. ![]()
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