Mr. Crewe's Career is a 1908 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill.
The novel tells the story of a railroad lobby's attempts to control the New Hampshire state government using all possible tactics. Churchill's prior novel Coniston was also a political novel, and the successor draws from Churchill's own unsuccessful run for Governor of New Hampshire in 1906.[1]
Though the book was perhaps not as praised as Coniston, it was generally well-received and popular.[2][3][4] It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1908. Playwright Marion Fairfax also adapted the novel into a play which opened in New Haven, Connecticut in December 1908.[5]
References
- ^ (May 9, 1908). MR. CREWE'S CAREER: Winston Churchill's Latest Novel Another Story of Political Conditions in New Hampshire -- A Picture of Popular Uprising Against Railroad Domination, The New York Times
- ^ Schneider, Robert W. Novelist to a Generation: The Life and Thought of Winston Churchill, p. 126 (1976)
- ^ (May 9, 1908). A Notable American Story of Love and Politics (book review), New York Tribune, p.5, col. 1.
- ^ (May 24, 1908). Mr. Crewe's Career (review), San Francisco Call
- ^ (December 29, 1908). 'MR. CREWE'S CAREER' STAGED; Play Is a Dramatization of Winston Churchill's Political Novel, The New York Times
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