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''A Thing of State'' is a 1995 political novel by Allen Drury which follows the U.S. State Department's response to a crisis in the Middle East.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Publishers Weekly ">accessdate=January 17, 2015 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''A Thing of State'' by Allen Drury )〕 It is a standalone work set in a different fictional timeline from Drury's 1959 novel ''Advise and Consent'', which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction (1948-present) )〕 ''A Thing of State'' was the last novel Drury saw published before his death in 1998; his final novel, ''Public Men'', was published posthumously.〔 ==Plot summary== It is 1999, and the Middle Eastern kingdoms of Greater and Lesser Lolome are at war with each other over oil. When Sidi bin Sidi bin Sidi, the despotic ruler of Greater Lolome newly armed with nuclear weapons, demands control over Lesser Lolome, the United States is compelled to intervene. The President hopes to use the situation to his political advantage, while the Secretary of State, his deputy, the United Nations and other factions debate their next move under pressure from the American public, which Sidi knows had tied their hands.
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