His works are true epics showing in fascinating detail the minds and motives of the statesmen, the opportunists, the idealists. In his novels, Allen Drury penetrates the world’s stormiest political battleground-the smoke-filled committee rooms of the United States Senate-to reveal the bitter conflicts and controversial politics when opposing parties struggle for power, by any means necessary. A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition that cuts across the landscape of Washington, DC, with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer and insider can convey. A seminal work of political fiction, it is as relevant today as when it was first published.
The original novel, Advise and Consent, is one of the high points of 20th Century literature, #1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner.
She says it’s too late for a capital gains tax because most of the gains have been made, but there are forms of housing tax which can address the misallocation of resources to the top end.This boxed set contains all six bestselling novels in Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent series, a masterwork of politics and human nature that spanned sixteen years of the author’s career. And we can see it’s ending badly – or its starting to end badly – with the social disintegration we’re starting to see – and the pretense that there’s no money to fix things at the lower end,” Dr St John says. It’s even bad for those at the top because they’re living in a bubble. She says the sort of unrestrained growth identified in the report is unsustainable. An advocate for greater economic fairness says an Inland Revenue research report which identified the low tax rates paid by New Zealand’s 300 wealthiest families raises important questions about the cost to society of growing inequality.ĭr Susan St John, an honorary associate professor with the University of Auckland School of Business, says people also need to ask why some people are able to accumulate such a large and growing share of the country’s wealth.
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