| Mr. Crewe's Career | |
| Author: | Winston Churchill |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Macmillan |
| Pub Date: | May 1908 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages: | 498 pp |
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]