The Honourable Hilary Vane, who never held office, runs his state’s politics on behalf of the all-powerful Northeastern Railroad from a maple-shaded street in Ripton. His independent-minded son Austen begins to question the machine, while the wealthy and self-important Humphrey Crewe throws himself into a noisy campaign for governor as a reformer.
From the American novelist Winston Churchill, not the British statesman: a shrewd, often funny portrait of Progressive Era politics in New England. Download the free EPUB.