Booth Tarkington served in the Indiana House of Representatives in 1902; bosses, dirty tricks, vote fraud, and smoke-filled rooms bring these short fiction pieces about politics to life. Collected in 1905, the book includes “Boss Gorget, ” “The Aliens, ” “The Need of Money, ” “Hector, ” “Mrs. Protheroe, ” and “Great Men’s Sons.”
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About the author
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist best known for his depictions of life in small Midwestern cities. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. Today, he is most noted as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons and for the novel Alice Adams, about the frustrated ambitions of a lower middle class young woman.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 312 ● ISBN 9781411441262 ● File size 0.2 MB ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8513609 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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