Advise and Consent is a political novel by Allen Drury which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. The book explores the reaction of several people in and around the United States Senate to the controversial nomination of Robert Leffingwell to be Secretary of State of the United States. The title comes from the United States Constitution's Article II, Sec. 2, cl. 2, which provides that the President of the United States "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consults, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States...." The book was loosely based on the Alger Hiss controversy.
Drury wrote several sequels, but none achieved the success of Advise and Consent. A movie adaptation was released in year.