The American novelist Winston Churchill begins with a love story of the Jacksonian era, when Jethro Bass, an uncouth tanner in the hill town of Coniston, loves Cynthia Ware and learns that power over votes, mortgages and men can be bought. The second half follows his long reign as a state boss and his devotion to a younger Cynthia.
A huge bestseller of 1906 and a sharp portrait of machine politics; not by the British statesman of the same name. Download the free EPUB.