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Everyone knows the controversial 1962 film of The Manchurian Candidate starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, even though it was taken out of circulation for 25 years after JFK's assassination. Equally controversial on publication, and just as timely today, is Richard Condon's original novel. First published in 1959, The Manchurian Candidate is Condon's riveting take on a little-known corner of the cold war, the almost sci-fi concept of American soldiers captured, brainwashed, and programmed by their Chinese captors to return to the states as unsuspected political assassins. Condon's expert manipulation of the book's multiple themes ? from anticommunist hysteria to megalomaniacal motherhood ? makes this one of the most dazzling, and enduring, products of an unforgettable time. This classic of cold war paranoia includes a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning author Louis Menand.
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Richard Condon s numerous bestsellers include Prizzi s Honor, Prizzi s Family, and Prizzi s Glory. Louis Menand is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Metaphysical Club and American Studies.
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"Brilliant . . . a wild and exhilarating satire." The New Yorker
"Original . . . a breathlessly up-to-date thriller." New York Times
"Apocalyptic . . . Condon is wickedly skillful." Time
"An exciting, brilliantly told story . . . crammed with suspense, humor, horror, satire, sex and intrigue." Chicago Tribune
"Shocking, tense . . . a high-grade adventure-suspense." San Francisco Chronicle
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