Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Allen Drury

Born: September 2, 1918
Died: September 2, 1998 (aged 80)
Bio: Allen Stuart Drury was an American novelist. He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960.
Known for:
- A Shade of Difference (1962)
- Preserve and Protect (1968)
- Capable of Honor (1966)
- A God Against the Gods (1976)