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{{Short description|1959 novel by Allen Drury}}
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{{Infobox book
| name           = Advise and Consent
| image          = AdviseandConsent1stEd.JPG
| caption        = First edition
| author         = [[Allen Drury]]
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| cover_artist   =
| series         = ''Advise and Consent''
| genre          = [[Political fiction|Political novel]]
| published      = August 11, 1959<ref>{{cite journal |date=August 11, 1959 |title=''Advise and Consent'' (advertisement) |journal=[[The New York Times]] |page=20 |quote=Published Today! }}</ref>
| publisher      = [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]
| media_type     = Print (hardback & paperback) & Audio Book ([[Compact audio cassette|Cassette]])
| pages          = 616 pages
| isbn           = 0-385-05419-X
| followed_by    = [[A Shade of Difference]]
}}

'''''Advise and Consent''''' is a 1959 [[political fiction]] novel by [[Allen Drury]] that explores the [[United States Senate]] confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell, whose promotion is endangered due to growing evidence that the nominee had been a member of the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]]. The chief characters' responses to the evidence, and their efforts to spread or suppress it, form the basis of the novel.

The novel spent 102 weeks on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]], won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 1960 and was adapted into a successful [[Advise & Consent (film)|1962 film]] starring [[Henry Fonda]].<ref name="WSJ 2009">{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203706604574378842802585268 |title=At 50, a D.C. Novel With Legs |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |first=Scott |last=Simon |author-link=Scott Simon |date=September 2, 2009 |access-date=January 15, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Kemme 242">{{cite book |first=Tom |last=Kemme |title=Political Fiction, the Spirit of the Age, and Allen Drury |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalfiction00kemm |url-access=registration |publisher=Bowling Green State University Popular Press |date=1987 |page=[https://archive.org/details/politicalfiction00kemm/page/242 242]}}</ref><ref name="HP Classic">{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-simon/classic-politics-the-work_b_5403779.html |title=Classic Politics: The Works of Allen Drury Now Back in Print |first=Phil |last=Simon |author-link=Phil Simon |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=May 28, 2014 |access-date=January 14, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Pulitzer">{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction (1948-present) |publisher=Pulitzer.org |access-date=January 14, 2015}}</ref> It was followed by Drury's ''[[A Shade of Difference]]'' in 1962, and four additional [[sequel]]s.<ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/03/books/allen-drury-80-novelist-wrote-advise-and-consent.html |title=Allen Drury, 80, Novelist; Wrote ''Advise and Consent'' (Obituary)  |access-date=January 19, 2015 |last=Smith |first=Dinitia |date=September 3, 1998 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>