How long does it take to read Advise and Consent?
Allen Drury
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury takes about 12 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1959. 706 pages, about 194,150 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent is one of the high points of 20th Century literature, a seminal work of political fiction—as relevant today as when it was first published. A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition cuts across the landscape of Washington, DC, with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer and insider can convey. Allen Drury has penetrated the world’s stormiest political battleground—the smoke-filled committee rooms of the United States Senate—to reveal the bitter conflicts set in motion when the President calls upon the Senate to confirm his controversial choice for Secretary of State. This novel is a true epic showing in fascinating detail the minds and motives of the statesmen, the opportunists, the idealists. From a Senate old-timer’s wily maneuvers, a vicious demagogue’s blistering smear campaign, the ugly personal jealousies that turn a highly qualified candidate into a public spectacle, to the tragic martyrdom of a presidential aspirant who refuses to sacrifice his principles for his career—never has there been a more revealing picture of Washington’s intricate political, diplomatic, and social worlds. Advise and Consent is a timeless story with clear echoes of today’s headlines.
Subjects: Fiction, United States, United States. Congress, United States. Congress. Senate, Politics and government, American fiction
