Bibliography
AMERICAN NOVELS
Adams, Henry: Democracy (1880). Madeleine Lee goes to Washington to learn about democracy and government. Disillusioned by its state and by Senator Ratcliffe.
Adams, Samuel: Revelry (1926). Fictionalized version of Harding era’s corruption.
Amsbarry, Mary Anne: Caesar’s Angel (1952). Rise and fall of a tainted young politician who tries to deal with criminal element in a state adjacent to Illinois.
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 (1953). A book-destroying Fireman turns against the post-atomic war regime of a horrific, cultureless, totalitarian United States.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: Through One Administration (1914). Innocent Bertha Amory’s husband uses her charm to lobby for his schemes in late nineteenth-century Washington.
Churchill, Winston: Coniston (1906). Jethro Bass’s rise to control of a New England state through mortgage holdings and political deals in the post-Jacksonian era.
——: Mr. Crewe’s Career (1908). Twenty years after Bass’s death the railroads exercise tighter control. Signs of public opinion being marshalled for action.
Coe, Charles Francis: Ashes (1952). Contemporary politics and corruption plus murder.