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| - | *''[[The Shark and the Sardines]]'' (1956) by [[Juan José Arévalo]] | + | '''Allen Stuart Drury''' (September 2, 1918 – September 2, 1998) was an American [[novelist]]. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Harry S. Truman]], among others. He would convert these experiences into his first novel ''[[Advise and Consent]]'', for which he won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 1960. Long afterwards, it was still being praised as ‘the definitive Washington tale’. His diaries from this period were published as ''A Senate Journal 1943-45''. |
| - | *''[[The Last Hurrah]]'' (1956) by [[Edwin O'Connor]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' (1957) by [[Ayn Rand]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Short Reign of Pippin IV]]'' (1957) by [[John Steinbeck]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Ugly American]]'' (1958) by [[William J. Lederer]] and [[Eugene Burdick]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[Things Fall Apart]]'' (1958) by [[Chinua Achebe]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (1959) by [[Richard Condon]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Advise and Consent]]'' (1959) by [[Allen Drury]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Gore Vidal|The Best Man]]'' (1960) by [[Gore Vidal]] (play) | + | |
| - | *''[[Catch 22]]'' (1961) by [[Joseph Heller]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Golden Notebook]]'' (1962) by [[Doris Lessing]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Seven Days in May]]'' (1962) by [[Fletcher Knebel]] and [[Charles W. Bailey]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Man (1964 novel)|The Man]]'' (1964) by [[Irving Wallace]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' (1965) by [[Frank Herbert]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Squares of the City]]'' (1965) by [[John Brunner]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[All in the Family]]'' (1966) by [[Edwin O'Connor]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[A Man of the People]]'', by [[Chinua Achebe]] (1966) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Comedians (novel)|The Comedians]]'' (1966) by [[Graham Greene]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Late Bourgeois World]]'' (1966) by [[Nadine Gordimer]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Cancer Ward]]'' (1967) by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Washington, D.C. (novel)|Washington, D.C.]]'' (1967) by [[Gore Vidal]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Godfather (novel)|The Godfather]]'', by [[Mario Puzo]] (1969) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Being There]]'', by [[Jerzy Kosiński]] (1971) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Lorax]]'' (1971) by [[Dr. Seuss]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Burr (novel)|Burr]]'' (1973) by [[Gore Vidal]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Reasons of State]]'' (1974) by [[Alejo Carpentier]] | + | |
| - | *''[[I, the Supreme]]'' (1974) by [[Augusto Roa Bastos]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Chocolate War]]'' (1974) by [[Robert Cormier]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Remember Ruben]]'' (1974) by [[Mongo Beti]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Autumn of the Patriarch]]'' (1975) by [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Guerrillas (novel)|Guerrillas]]'' (1975) by [[V. S. Naipaul]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Monkey Wrench Gang]]'' (1975) by [[Edward Abbey]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Kiss of the Spider Woman (novel)|Kiss of the Spider Woman]]'' (1976) by [[Manuel Puig]] | + | |
| - | *''[[1876 (novel)|1876]]'' (1976) by [[Gore Vidal]] | + | |
| - | *''[[A Flag For Sunrise]]'', by [[Robert Stone (novelist)|Robert Stone]] (1977) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Dead Zone (novel)|The Dead Zone]]'' (1979) by [[Stephen King]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[An Enemy of the State]]'', by [[F. Paul Wilson]] (1980) | + | |
| - | * ''[[A Very British Coup]]'', by [[Chris Mullin (politician)|Chris Mullin]] (1982) | + | |
| - | * ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' by [[Alan Moore]] and [[David Lloyd (comics)|David Lloyd]] (1982–88) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Day the Leader was Killed]]'' (1983) by [[Naguib Mahfouz]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta]]'' (1984) by [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Butter Battle Book]]'' (1984) by [[Dr. Seuss]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (1985) by [[Margaret Atwood]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Anthills of the Savannah]]'' (1987) by [[Chinua Achebe]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[Favorite Son (novel)|Favorite Son]]'', by [[Steve Sohmer]], (1988) | + | |
| - | * ''[[House of Cards]]'', by [[Michael Dobbs]] (1989?) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Redemption (1990 novel)|Redemption]]'' (1990) by [[Tariq Ali]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Fourth K]]'', by [[Mario Puzo]] (1990) | + | |
| - | *''[[Vineland]]'' (1990) by [[Thomas Pynchon]] | + | |
| - | * ''[[Patriots (novel)|Patriots]], by [[Steve Sohmer]] (1991) | + | |
| - | * ''[[To Play the King]], by [[Michael Dobbs]] (1991) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Fatherland (novel)|Fatherland]]'', by [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] (1992) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Final Cut]]'', by [[Michael Dobbs]] (1992) | + | |
| - | * ''[[American Hero (novel)|American Hero]]'', by [[Larry Beinhart]] (1994) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Blindness (novel)|Blindness]]'' (1995) by [[Jose Saramago]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Primary Colors (novel)|Primary Colors]]'' (1996) by [[Joe Klein]] (as "[[Anonymity|Anonymous]]") | + | |
| - | * ''[[Absolute Power (novel)|Absolute Power]]'', by [[David Baldacci]] (1996) | + | |
| - | *''Yo-Yo Boing!" by [[Giannina Braschi]] (1998) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Feast of the Goat]]'' (2000) by [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Snow (Pamuk novel)|Snow]]'' (2002) by [[Orhan Pamuk]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Gospel According To Larry]]'' (2003) by [[Janet Tashjian]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Successor (Kadare)|The Successor]]'' (2003) by [[Ismail Kadare]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Seeing (novel)|Seeing]]'' (2004) by [[José Saramago]] | + | |
| - | * De president, by [[Khalid Boudou]] (2005) | + | |
| - | * ''[[A Time to Run]]'', by [[Barbara Boxer]] (2005) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Polity of Beasts]]'' (2007) by [[Renald Iacovelli]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The writing on the wall (novel)|The Writing on the Wall]]'' (2007) by Hannes Artens | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Coup (2007 novel)|The Coup]]'', by [[Jamie Malanowski]] (2007) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Ghost (Robert Harris novel)|The Ghost]]'', by [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] (2007) | + | |
| - | * ''[[When the White House Was Ours (Porter Shreve novel)|When the White House Was Ours]]'', by [[Porter Shreve (novelist)|Porter Shreve]] (2008) | + | |
| - | * ''American Savior'' (2008) by [[Roland Merullo]] | + | |
| - | * ''The Best Laid Plans'' (2008) by [[Terry Fallis]] | + | |
| - | * ''United States of Banana'' (2011) by [[Giannina Braschi]] | + | |
| - | * ''Faultline 49'' (2012) by [[David Danson]] | + | |
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| - | ==Movies== | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Dark Horse (film)|The Dark Horse]]'' (1932) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Gabriel Over the White House]]'' (1933) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]'' (1939) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' (1940) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Farmer's Daughter (1947 film)|The Farmer's Daughter]]'' (1947) | + | |
| - | * ''[[State of the Union]]'' (1948) | + | |
| - | * ''[[All the King's Men (1949 film)|All the King's Men]]'' (1949) | + | |
| - | * ''[[A Lion in the Streets]]'' (1953) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma]]'' (''Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy'' — 1956 [[Poland|Polish]] film, starring [[Adolf Dymsza]], based on the novel of the same title by [[Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz]]) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Advise & Consent (film)|Advise & Consent]]'' (1962) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (1962) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Best Man (1964 film)|The Best Man]]'' (1964) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'' (1964) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Point of Order (film)|Point of Order]]'' (1964) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Seven Days in May]]'' (1964) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Battle of Algiers|Battle of Algiers]]'' (1966) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Pharaoh (film)|Pharaoh]]'' (1966 Polish feature film based on [[Bolesław Prus]]' novel, ''[[Pharaoh (novel)|Pharaoh]]'') | + | |
| - | * ''[[Z (film)]]'' (1969) | + | |
| - | * ''[[1776 (film)|1776]]'' (1972) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Man (1972 film)|The Man]]'' (1972) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Godfather]]'' (1972) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Candidate (1972 film)|The Candidate]]'' (1972) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Godfather, Part II]]'' (1974) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Being There]]'' (1979) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Seeing Red (film)|Seeing Red]]'' (1983) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Secret Honor]]'' (1984) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Power (1986 film)|Power]]'' (1986) | + | |
| - | * ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'' (1991) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Bob Roberts]]'' (1992) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Distinguished Gentleman]]'' (1992) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Running Mates (1992 film)|Running Mates]]'' (1992) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Dave (film)|Dave]]'' (1993) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The War Room]]'' (1993) | + | |
| - | * ''[[With Honors (film)|With Honors]]'' (1994) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The American President (film)|The American President]]'' (1995) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Nixon (film)|Nixon]]'' (1995) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Flirting With Power]]'' (1996) | + | |
| - | * ''[[My Fellow Americans]]'' (1996) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Murder at 1600]]'' (1997) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Wag the Dog]]'' (1997) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Peacemaker]]'' (1997) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Absolute Power (film)|Absolute Power]]'' (1997, based on the 1996 novel by [[David Baldacci]]) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Bulworth]]'' (1998) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Primary Colors (film)|Primary Colors]]'' (1998) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Siege]]'' (1998) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Three Kings (1999 film)|Three Kings]]'' (1999) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Dick (film)|Dick]]'' (1999) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Thirteen Days (film)|Thirteen Days]]'' (2000) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Contender (2000 film)|The Contender]]'' (2000) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Running Mates (film)|Running Mates]]'' (2000) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Quiet American (2002 film)|The Quiet American]]'' (2002) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma]]'' (''Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy'' — 2002 [[Poland|Polish]] film, starring [[Cezary Pazura]], based on the novel of the same title by [[Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz]]) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde]]'' (2003) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (2004 [[remake]] of the 1962 film) | + | |
| - | * ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' (2005) | + | |
| - | * ''[[All the King's Men (2006 film)|All the King's Men]]'' (2006) | + | |
| - | * ''[[An Unreasonable Man]]'' (2006) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Man of the Year (2006 film)|Man of the Year]]'' (2006) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Lives of Others]]'' (2006) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Idiocracy]]'' (2006) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Charlie Wilson's War]]'' (2007) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Dawn of the World]]'' (2008) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Swing Vote (2008 film)|Swing Vote]]'' (2008) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Vantage Point (film)|Vantage Point]]'' (2008) | + | |
| - | * ''[[In the Loop (film)|In the Loop]]'' (2009) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Ides of March (film)|The Ides of March]]'' (2011) | + | |
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| - | ==Television== | + | |
| - | * ''[[Slattery's People]]'' (1964-65 American television series about local politics, starring Richard Crenna as a U.S. state legislator) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Prisoner]]'' (1967) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Adams Chronicles]]'' (1976 miniseries) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma|Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy]]'' (The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — 1980 Polish TV [[miniseries]] based on the novel by [[Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz]]) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Yes Minister]]'' (and its sequel, ''[[Yes, Prime Minister]]''), by [[Antony Jay]] and [[Jonathan Lynn]] (1980–88) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Edge of Darkness]]'' (1985) | + | |
| - | * [[The New Statesman]] (1987-94) | + | |
| - | * ''[[A Very British Coup]]'' (1988) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Tanner '88]]'' (1988) | + | |
| - | * ''[[House of Cards]]'' (1990) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Babylon 5]]'' (1993) | + | |
| - | * ''[[A Third Choice]]'' (1996) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Spin City]]'' (1996-2002) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Nostromo]]'' (1997) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The West Wing (TV series)|The West Wing]]'' (1999–2006) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Moncloa, ¿dígame?]]'' (2001) Sitcom about the Spanish President press office | + | |
| - | * ''[[24 (TV series)|24]]'' (2001-10) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Wire (TV series)|The Wire]]'' (2002–08) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Project (2002 television programme)|The Project]]'' (2002) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Absolute Power (series)|Absolute Power]]'' (2003, 2005) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Yugo the Negotiator]]'' (2004; [[anime]], on hostage-negotiation) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (2004) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Commander in Chief (TV series)|Commander-in-Chief]]'' (2005) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Thick of It]]'', by [[Armando Iannucci]] (2005) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Brotherhood (2006 TV series)|Brotherhood]]'' (2006) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Party Animals (TV series)|Party Animals]]'' ([[BBC Two]], 2007) | + | |
| - | * ''[[John Adams]]'' (2008) (miniseries) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Recount (film)|Recount]]'' (2008) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Hollowmen]]'' ([[ABC1]], 2008) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Change (TV series)|Change]]'' (2008) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' (2009) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Borgen (TV series)|Borgen]]'' (2010-2013) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Scandal]]'' (2012) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Political Animals]]'' (2012) | + | |
| - | * "[[Veep]]", by [[Armando Ianucci]] (2012) | + | |
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| - | ==Musicals== | + | |
| - | * ''[[Running for Office]]'' (1903) | + | |
| - | * ''[[George Washington, Jr.]]'' (1906) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Show Boat]]'' (1927) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'' (1928) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Of Thee I Sing]]'' (1931) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Miss Liberty]]'' (1949) | + | |
| - | * ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'' (1950) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Call Me Madam]]'' (1950) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The King and I]]'' (1952) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Pajama Game]]'' (1955) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Candide]]'' (1957) | + | |
| - | * ''[[West Side Story]]'' (1958) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Fiorello!]]'' (1960) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' (1960) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'' (1965) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' (1966) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Cabaret (musical)|Cabaret]]'' (1967) | + | |
| - | * ''[[1776 (musical)|1776]]'' (1969) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' (1969) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' (1971) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Shenandoah (musical)|Shenandoah]]'' (1975) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Chicago (musical)|Chicago]]'' (1976) | + | |
| - | * ''[[1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical)|1600 Pennsylvania Avenue]]'' (1976) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]'' (1980) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Sarafina!]]'' (1988) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Who's Tommy]]'' (1993) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Rent (musical)|Rent]]'' (1996) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk]]'' (1996) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Ragtime]]'' (1998) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Parade (musical)|Parade]]'' (1998) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Urinetown The Musical]]'' (2001) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Wicked (musical)|Wicked]]'' (2004) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Assassins (musical)|Assassins]]'' (2004) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Caroline, or Change]]'' (2004) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Color Purple]]'' (2006) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Grey Gardens]]'' (2007) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Scottsboro Boys (musical)|The Scottsboro Boys]]'' (2010) | + | |
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| - | ==Comic strips== | + | |
| - | *''[[Pogo (comics)|Pogo]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Bloom County]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Doonesbury]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Opus (comic strip)|Opus]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Outland (comics)|Outland]]'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Pearls Before Swine (comics)|Pearls Before Swine]]'' | + | |
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| - | ==See also== | + | |
| - | *[[Editorial cartoon]] | + | |
| - | *[[Political fiction]] | + | |
| - | *[[Assassinations in fiction]] | + | |
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Allen Stuart Drury (September 2, 1918 – September 2, 1998) was an American novelist. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, among others. He would convert these experiences into his first novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Long afterwards, it was still being praised as ‘the definitive Washington tale’. His diaries from this period were published as A Senate Journal 1943-45.
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