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The sequel to the Pulitzer Prize winning bestseller Advise and
Consent From Allen Drury, the 20th Century grand master of
political fiction, a novel of the United Nations and the racial
friction that could spark a worldwide powderkeg. International
tensions rise as ambassadors and politicians scheme, using the
independence of a small African nation as the focal point for
hidden agendas. A cascade of events begun in the General Assembly
Hall of the United Nations could lead to the weakening of the
United States, the loss of the Panama Canal, and a possible civil
war. Allen Drury paints a vivid and laseraccurate portrait of
Washington and international politics, from top secret conferences,
to elite cocktail parties, club luncheon rooms, and the private
offices of the key players in government. A novel as relevant today
as when it was first published.
The epic story of a Senator's rise and fall. Mark Coffin of
California was barely thirty years old when he won a startling
upset victory in his race for a seat in the U.S. Senate. A bright,
handsome, energetic idealist with a passion for decency in
government, he thought his honesty and dedication would see him
through anything. But Washington, DC, was all too eager to teach
him the hard lessons of gamesmanship and compromise. Neither Mark
Coffin nor his wife were prepared for what Washington had in store
for them: the bizarre sex scandal that would threaten to destroy
not only Mark Coffin's career and his personal life, but all of the
political reforms he was fighting so desperately to achieve. Mark
Coffin, U.S.S. is a magnificent novel of Washington politics-an
insider's view of power at the top, shown through the eyes of
vivid, fascinating, and humanly likable characters. From Allen
Drury, the master of spellbinding political fiction, author of
Advise and Consent
""We live in the Republic of Feel-Good in a time when all the scum
of America is rising to the top." "So begins "Public Men, " the
final novel of "the University trilogy" in which Pulitzer Prize
winner Allen Drury concludes some fifty years in the lives of the
members of the World War II generation whose stories he began on
the eve of the war in the novel "Toward What Bright Glory?"
The second novel, "Into What Far Harbor?, " carries them on through
the challenges, triumphs, and tragedies of the war and on to the
years when they must worry about their world and the world of their
children against the backdrop of the later Vietnam War. Now in
"Public Men, " set in the year 2000, when most are either about to
embark upon, or have already entered, their eighties, the fifteen
who remain of the original twenty-six meet for a last reunion on
the beautiful campus where they shared a fondly remembered
fraternity house and the hopes and dreams of youth confronted by
history's most chaotic and ominously foreboding century.
"Public Men" concerns them all, but overshadowing their lives as in
the two previous novels is the life of Richard Emmett
Wilson--"Willie," now and for many years a United States Senator
from his native California; his legislative triumphs on Capitol
Hill; the tragic death of his first wife, Donna; his second and
third marriages; his political disagreements with, but ultimate
pride in, his older son Latt as Latt follows in his footsteps into
the House of Representatives and then into the Senate; and,
finally, Willie's campaign for president, threatened by other
personal tragedies, most devastatingly those of his gentle,
vulnerable younger son, Amos.
Through it all, Willie, often in alliance with Tim Bates, does
battle against what he sees as the "phony liberalism" of his famous
fraternity brother Dr. Rene (Renny) Suratt; and Renny and his
powerful friends of academe and the media in turn do battle with
what they see as the "reactionary conservatism" of Willie and his
friends. Tim, wielder of a savage commentator's pen, refers to
"Renny and his crew" as "the scum" he attacks. Renny responds with
equally scathing pen and matching contempt. As with many of the
public men in "Public Men, " these three fraternity brothers sum up
what they regard as the major political and social issues of
end-of-the-millennium twentieth century. Allen Drury skillfully
meshes the public and private lives of his characters against the
Washington world that has formed the rich backdrop of many of his
twenty-five books.
A gripping novel about the deterioration of the criminal justice
system and the mysterious, powerful body at its core-the Supreme
Court of the United States. Earle Holgren-murderer, terrorist, lost
soul-is the center of a vortex that sweeps up a fascinating cast of
characters in their ambitions, politics, honor, and scandal. From
the eight Justices of the Supreme Court, to the Attorney General of
South Carolina who sees a compelling, controversial trial as an
opportunity for demagoguery that might pave his path to the White
House, to the idealistic defense lawyer who seeks to save a man she
knows to be a psycopathic killer, to a driven Washington journalist
in love with one of the Justices whose marriage is crumbling, and
other Justices with their own agendas, vendettas, and secrets,
Decision is a sweeping tale that begins at a nuclear power plant in
South Carolina, works its way through the courts of that state, and
finally to the halls of the Supreme Court. From Allen Drury, the
master of spellbinding political fiction, author of Advise and
Consent
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