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''Advise and Consent'' is a 1959 political novel by Allen Drury that explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell, who is a former member of the Communist Party. The novel spent 102 weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960 and was adapted into a successful 1962 film starring Henry Fonda.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction (1948-present) )〕 It was followed by Drury's ''A Shade of Difference'' in 1962, and four additional sequels. ==Background== This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel's title comes from the United States Constitution's Article II, Sec. 2, cl. 2, which provides that the President of the United States "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consults, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States...." Author Drury, a staunch anti-Communist, believed most Americans were naive about the dangers of the Soviet-led communist threat to undermine the government of the United States: ''Advise and Consent'' is a fictional account of the nomination of a prominent liberal, Robert Leffingwell, to the cabinet position of Secretary of State during the height of the Cold War. It is said that the story is based on Drury's first-hand insight into the personalities and political practices of the late-1950s including the 1954 episode wherein Senators Styles Bridges and Herman Welker threatened to publicize a homosexual in Senator Lester Hunt's family if Hunt did not resign from the Senate. In fact, the website of the U.S. Senate states: Several sources agree that character Robert Leffingwell, the novel's nominee for Secretary of State represents Alger Hiss. Addressing the suggestion that the book was a ''roman à clef'', Drury wrote a very sharply worded preface which was only published in the new edition: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「advise and consent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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