Advise and Consent [LEATHERBOUND LIMITED EDITION, 1960 Pulitzer Prize Winner]

Drury, Allen

Verlag: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1976

As new condition full navy blue leather hardcover boards with elaborately decorated gold front and rear cover design, gold spine lettering and decorations, gold gilt page edges on all three sides, beige moire fabric front and rear endsheets, traditional four-hubbed spine, a bound-into-the-volume matching beige satin ribbon page marker, and all pages are sewn into the binding (not glued). Also includes a Preliminary Page Note about the Book and Author. Illustrated with color drawings plus a double-page color frontispiece drawing by Franz Altschuler. "Nothing makes a writer happier than to write a book that is both a popular and a critical success. And the pleasure is compounded when that book happens to be a first novel. Allen Drury's first novel, Advise and Consent -- the story of a bitter struggle in the United States Senate over whether to confirm the President's nominee for Secretary of State -- was on the best-seller list for two years. And it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. Most critics found Drury's long, fast-paced look at how the Senate works thoroughly engrossing. The New York Times called it "the most exciting, most discriminating and most intimate novel of Washington political life yet to appear." Christian Century said it was "a corking good story and also an education in civics, morality and contemporary American history." For years Allen Drury sat in the Senate press gallery, filing reports from the United Press, for Pathfinder Magazine, for the Washington Evening Star and for The New York Times. He grew up in California and received his formal education at Stanford University, where he began his long career in journalism as a member of the Stanford Daily. Drury has written other popular novels. Among them are A Shade of Difference, Capable of Honor, Preserve and Protect, Come Ninevah, and Promise of Joy. Most avid Drury fans have read them all. Artist Franz Altschuler has chosen to ornament Drury's hard, fast book with a series of mood-setting vignettes that are comparable to what your eye might settle on at one brief point in a tense conversation with one of the characters of the novel. Altschuler's drawings are reproduced on a 5--pound Warren Olde Style Wove paper. The type is a handsome Times Roman. "The book has the fascination," wrote Time Magazine, "that always comes with an attempt to reconstruct what happens in high places behind closed doors." Drury's experience with what goes on behind closed doors is evident in Advise and Consent." -- The Franklin Library, from the Preliminary Page. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006653

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Advise and Consent [LEATHERBOUND LIMITED ...
Verlag: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Erscheinungsdatum: 1976
Einband: Hardcover
Illustrator: Altschuler, Franz
Zustand: As New
Auflage: Limited Edition