Have been reading Allen Drury's Advice & Consent series for the past two weeks. What was inconceivable when he wrote (and we were reading) in the '60s is almost commonplace now. I swear today's democrat talking points come right from the mouths of Frankly Unctious, Fred Van Ackerman, Ted Jason.
Those were good books, and were highly readable because indeed they were not inconceivable, but all too much like the daily Huntley-Brinkley Report. We had Frankly Unctious back then live and in color, just as we do today.