In 1959, author Allen Drury published “Advise and Consent,” one of the most popular political novels of the time. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was made into a movie starring Henry Fonda. The plot revolved around Senate consideration of a nominee for secretary of state, but the subtext was Drury’s fear of appeasement by naïve American liberals of an omnivorous Soviet Union.

Almost 60 years later, a story every bit as compelling is unfolding, all the more intriguing because it’s happening in real life. The modern version is a mirror image of Cold War fears of the Russians: Today, it is a conservative president who allegedly benefited from Russian interference in a U.S. election and suspicious liberals urging investigation.

The modern version of Drury’s novel might be “The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election,” a book by counterintelligence expert Malcolm Nance published last October, just before the election.

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