- Hardcover
- Publisher: M.Joseph (Sep 1 1975)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0718114280
- ISBN-13: 978-0718114282
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 699 g
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After the distress of "Come Ninevah, Come Tyre". . .
Dec 26 2001
By David Zampino
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Format:Hardcover
. . .this book is a refreshing change.
Like it's predecessor, "The Promise of Joy" is set immediately following the ending of "Preserve and Protect" -- but with different results. Instead of the deaths of Sen. Knox and Mrs. Jason, it is Gov. Jason and Mrs. Knox who are killed -- and Senator Knox which ascends to the White House.
As the readers of the previous five novels can probably guess, the Presidency of Orrin Knox is far more successful than the Presidency of Edwin Jason. As an interesting aside, Drury foresaw the possibility of a theatre-level war between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China to be more likely than either nation actually attacking the United States. Although the Soviet Union no longer exists -- I suspect that the same would hold true today.
This book brings to a close the six-novel "Advise and Consent" series. Like the other books in the series, it should be required reading in high-school civics.
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Loved this Allen Drury Advise & Consent-Political Thrillers Series
Sep 24 2010
By Deanna Mosier
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
I did not like the bad language throughout the series, thus the 4 stars instead of 5. You really should read the other books in the Advise and Consent series by Allen Drury, but if not, you should try to read Come Ninevah, Come Tyre (CNCT), before you read Promise of Joy. These two books take off at the same starting point, then there is an assassination, and all things are different after that. In Promise of Joy, the "liberal" presidential candidate is assassinated along with the conservative candidate's wife. What happens when a conservative becomes president with liberal media and liberals in Congress...is what this story is all about. In CNCT, the "liberal" presidential candidate and the "conservative" candidate's wife are left alive after their spouses are assassinated. What then ensues could be what's happening today (2010). Will the "liberal" press come to its senses before its too late? Although the enemy in this series of political thrillers is Russia, it could very well be whoever the current "enemy" of the US is...great stories and so close to what this country is going through, it's amazing these books were written in the 1950-1960s.
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Exceptionally memorial
May 11 1999
By A Customer
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Format:Hardcover
I read this book in the mid-70's, as well as the companion book Come Nineveh Come Tyre and have thought of them both over the past several years. With our current conflict in the Balkins these books are a must read.
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