Allen Drury is weirdly compelling reading these days, and of his novels, perhaps only his Pulitzer-winning Advise and Consent is more meaningful to modern thought than Decision. If your local library doesn't have them both, I'll be surprised.
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Decision
Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America
Public Men: A Novel
Advise and Consent
Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court
A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law
Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas
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Article comments
1 - Michael J. Beach
I should like to read your novel greatly. I've come to realize that America is coming to be ruled by an oligarchy in black robes...as was stated the movie "The Devil's Advocate": (paraphrased) the law is the new religion and the judiciary the high priests.
Stand Strong...
2 - DrPat
Allen Drury's fiction is available in almost every library in the US. Even if you don't find it there, you can request it via Inter-Library Loan, and they will get it for you.
The Cold-War era novels have actually held up better than Drury's more-recent novels. His last, Public Men, has been parsed carefully as a not-so-subtle rendering of President Clinton's scandals and troubles. (Drury died in 1998.)