Advise and Consent

“Over the years, the Senate has attracted the talents of many novelists, from Mark Twain to Margaret Truman, as well as Hollywood film makers, from Frank Capra to Otto Preminger, who have created memorable fictional senators and unforgettable cinematic images of the Senate."

Senator Robert C. Byrd, Congressional Record, May 15, 1987

Allen Drury published the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Advise and Consentin 1959, which Otto Preminger made into a film in 1962.  Drury gathered much of the information for his book while working as a New York Times reporter in the Senate Press Gallery. He went on to write 19 other novels and five nonfiction books, many dealing with Washington politics.