It might be interesting to re-read the books by Allen Drury today....in the 60's and 70's, they were somewhat 'far out' there...but today, I wonder.....
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Drury's Novel and History
Allen Drury was staunchly anti-Communist, and greatly disdainful of most of the news media of his day, which, in his opinion, favoured political appeasement over military confrontation of the U.S.S.R. The Leffingwell nomination and the revelations of a Communist past are from the Alger Hiss affair of the late 1940s. The Soviet moon landing ahead of the U.S. draws on the culture shock that stupefied the U.S. when the U.S.S.R. launched the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik on 4 October 1957. Brigham Anderson's homosexual love affair, its exposure, and his suicide, was taken from a nasty political episode. Senator Styles Bridges threatened to expose a homosexual scandal in Senator Lester Hunt's family. Senator Hunt, from Wyoming, killed himself, showing Drury how rough politics could be. (Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives) |
