![]() In my protected Baptist world, I knew nothing of sex, let alone homosexuality.)įrom then on, it was taken for granted that I would one day be somehow involved in the public process. (But my mother was right: While I understood that some of these politicians were incarnations of evil, I did not understand the gist of the work at all – that one poor man was vulnerable to blackmail because of his homosexuality. ![]() The manipulation of power by all those musty old Washington men hypnotized me. At the age of 9, I felt plenty capable.Īllen Drury’s Pulitzer-Prize-winner was a compelling page-turner. “She won’t understand it,” my mother answered. I remember my aunt seeing me with the book. ![]() As soon as it arrived in my household, I read it. Advise and Consent was published in August of 1959. ![]()
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