Can A Politically Themed Story Still Be Interesting

[Saph]

Its good to know that social advocacy doesn’t belong in literature. It allows me to throw out a good portion of my personal library, and most of what I read in a college-level lit classes.

Too bad that none of those classes apparently covered more basic subjects, such as the meaning of the word 'tend'.

Ever Read Drury's Advise and Consent? It contains both of your categories, and is pretty good with it (the sequels much less so). It's also primarily about how much of politics is less about party than settling personal pique, ambition and general wang measuring, which makes the U.S. Congress much more understandable.

I haven't, but it does sound interesting. It's definitely possible to write advocacy that's also a good story, it's just that it's extremely rare. I usually find that a good litmus test for this kind of thing is "If I gave this book to someone who votes for a different political party, could they still enjoy it?"