A Shade of Difference

A Shade of Difference

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image_caption = August 1963 Pocket Books paperback
author = Allen Drury
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country = United States
language = English
series = Advise and Consent
genre = Political novel
publisher = Doubleday
pub_date = 1962
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 603 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 282789
preceded_by = Advise and Consent
followed_by = Capable of Honor

"A Shade of Difference" (ISBN 0-385-02389-8) is a 1962 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the first sequel to "Advise and Consent", for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960, [http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction (1948-present) - Pulitzer.org] Retrieved October 1, 2008.] and is followed by "Capable of Honor". [cite web | url = http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3495021.html | title = Allen Drury and the Washington Novel | first = Roger | last = Kaplan | work = Policy Review |date = October/November 1999 | publisher = Hoover Institution at Stanford University]

The novel focuses on the politics among delegations to the United Nations and the troubles that Third World nations cause the United States as it vies for political advantages against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.Fact|date=February 2007

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