Title: Advise and Consent
Description: The President of the United States nominates the controversial Robert A. Leffingwell to be Sec. of State, and as that startling news reverbrates throughout Washington a powerful politician commits suicide, a Cong. Committee comes up with a surprise witness, there is a vote of censure by the Senate, and the cynicism and selfishness and altruism and loyalty and ambitions of America's public servants are revealed.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, historical, Fiction, United States. Congress. Senate, United States, Fiction, historical, general, Politics and government, Secretaries of State (State governments), Political corruption