Drury wrote: 'If he appears in a critical light, that is because this is how we saw him from the Hill.' Roosevelt and his contentious relations with the Senate. Given the period it covered, it is natural that Drury's diary devoted considerable attention to President Franklin D. Harry Truman was featured as his position changed from junior senator from Missouri to vice president to president in the course of Drury's narrative. Both are model solons, white-haired, dignified, every inch the glamorous statesmen.' He considered Minority Leader Robert Taft 'one of the strongest and ablest men here,' and felt that 'Guy Gillette of Iowa and Hugh Butler of Nebraska vie for the title of Most Senatorial. Drury freely offered his first impressions of many senators: 'Alben Barkley, the Majority Leader, acts like a man who is working awfully hard and awfully earnestly at a job he doesn't particularly like.'

In addition to fulfilling his duties as a reporter, Drury also kept a journal of his views of the Senate and individual senators. A position as the United States Senate correspondent for United Press soon provided Drury not only with gainful employment, but also with the opportunity 'to be of some slight assistance in making my fellow countrymen better acquainted with their Congress and particularly their Senate.' In late 1943, he was a 25-year old army veteran looking for work. Army on Jin Los Angeles and trained as an infantry soldier. After graduating from Stanford, Drury went to work for the Tulare Bee in Porterville, where he won a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. In the 1990s, he wrote three novels inspired by his experiences at Stanford: Toward What Bright Glory?, Into What Far Harbor?, and Public Men. Drury's early American descendants were early immigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony.Īllen Stuart Drury grew up in Porterville, California, and earned his B.A. He was born to Alden Monteith Drury (1895-1975), a real estate broker and insurance agent, and Flora Allen (1894-1973), a legislative representative for the California Parent-Teacher Association. He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960.

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