Set in the years leading up to World War II, Toward What Bright Glory? follows a group of idealistic university students as they come of age in a world on the brink of global conflict. At college, they form friendships, rivalries, and ambitions that...

In Public Men, the final volume of his university trilogy, Allen Drury follows a group of former college friends whose lives have carried them into positions of influence and responsibility in American public life. Now older and shaped by decades of...