![]() ![]() ![]() In 1962, "Advise and Consent" was made into a movie starring Henry Fonda, Peter Lawford, Walter Pidgeon and Charles Laughton. His later works included the controversial "A Shade of Difference" (1962), which dealt with racial problems in politics and focused on the problems besetting the United Nations, "Courage and Hesitation" (1972), about the Nixon administration, "A God Against the Gods" (1976) and "Pentagon" (1986). "Advise and Consent" holds the record for the longest-running bestseller in history - 93 weeks on the New York Times list. Drury, who became a full-time novelist the next year. It won the Pulitzer for literature in 1960 and precipitated a career switch for Mr. Drury's first and most successful, quickly received critical acclaim and became a bestseller. The novel, which took him seven years to complete, weaves a tale of political and sexual intrigue centering on the selection of a new secretary of state. Senate for the Times in 1959 when "Advise and Consent" was published. Drury, an eloquent speaker and gifted writer who penned 17 other novels and five nonfiction works, died of heart failure in a Tiburon, Calif., hospital near his home, his publisher, Scribner, announced. Allen Drury, the New York Times reporter who used his knowledge of the inner workings of official Washington to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Advise and Consent," died Sept. ![]()
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