Senators not clearly identified by party are given no abbreviation. Names identified or strongly implied to be members of the Majority (Maj.) or Minority (min.) parties are followed by their party abbreviation. When only one name is given under a state, the other senator is not mentioned in the book. For each state, the first name is the senior senator, unless an asterisk follows the state's name, indicating that the senators are not identified in the book as senior or junior. (See notes following the list on Drury's possible inspirations and bibliography and links.)ĭrury gives no roster for his fictional Senate, but in the course of the book's text, 90 of the 100 senators are named, and a roster may be compiled from that, which follows with each name given in the fullest available form. Drury had been a political reporter before turning to fiction, and many of the events and characters in the book were drawn from real-life originals, but it is not a roman a clef with one-to-one references to be decoded. I wouldn't go that far - in many respects it's a dreadful book - but it is highly readable, and great fun for political junkies. Senate, and is considered by many as the best novel ever written about the workings of the U.S. The Fictional Senate of Allen Drury's Advise and ConsentĪdvise and Consent by Allen Drury (1959) is the most detailed novel of any reputation to focus on the U.S.
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